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Acts 5:22
Acts 5:22 is verse 22 of Acts chapter 5, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
But on arriving at the jail, the officers did not find them there. So they returned with the report:
King James Version
But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned, and told,
World English Bible
But the officers who came didn’t find them in the prison. They returned and reported,
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Acts 5:20–24 · Berean Standard Bible
20 “Go, stand in the temple courts and tell the people the full message of this new life.”
21 At daybreak the apostles entered the temple courts as they had been told and began to teach the people. When the high priest and his associates arrived, they convened the Sanhedrin—the full assembly of the elders of Israel—and sent to the jail for the apostles.
22 But on arriving at the jail, the officers did not find them there. So they returned with the report:
23 “We found the jail securely locked, with the guards posted at the doors; but when we opened them, we found no one inside.”
24 When the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests heard this account, they were perplexed as to what was happening.
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