Acts 5:22
But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned, and told,
But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned, and told,
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Acts 5:22
Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.
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Persons entrusted with an office, charge, authority, or oversight.
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1. Discovered or obtained. 2. Established or founded.
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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.
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Sense 1: A place of confinement. Sense 2: As a verb, to confine.
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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of return, meaning to go, come, send, or give back; to restore, answer, or turn again.
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Past-tense or past-participial form of tell (to say, relate, inform, count, or make known).
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5:17¶ Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation,
5:17¶ Then the high Priest rose vp, and al they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadduces) and were filled with ‖indignation,
5:18And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison.
5:18And laid their hands on the Apostles, & put them in the common prison.
5:19But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said,
5:19But the Angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doores, and brought them foorth, and said,
5:20Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.
5:20Goe, stand and speake in the Temple to the people all the words of this life.
5:21And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.
5:21And when they heard that, they entred into the Temple early in the morning, & taught: but the high Priest came, and they that were with him, and called the Councill together, and all the Senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to haue them brought.
5:22But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned, and told,
5:22But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned, and told,
Selected passage5:23Saying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within.
5:23Saying, The prison truely found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doores, but when we had opened, we found no man within.
5:24Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this would grow.
5:24Now when the high Priest, and the captaine of the Temple, and the chiefe Priests heard these things, they doubted of them wherunto this would grow.
5:25Then came one and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people.
5:25Then came one, and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in prison, are standing in the Temple, and teaching the people.
5:26Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.
5:26Then went the captaine with the officers, and brought them without violence: (For they feared the people, lest they should haue bene stoned.)
5:27And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them,
5:27And when they had brought them, they set them before the Councill, and the high Priest asked them,
5:28Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.
5:28Saying, *Did not wee straitly command you, that you should not teach in this Name? And behold, yee haue filled Hierusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this mans blood vpon vs.