Acts 5:22
But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned, and told,
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
Saying, the prison truly found we shut with all safety,.... Locked, barred and bolted;
and the keepers standing without before the doors; both inner and outer in their proper places, diligently…
Never did any good work go on with any hope of success, but it met with opposition; those that are bent to do mischief cannot be reconciled to those who make it their business to do good. Satan, the…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
But when the officers came The name may imply a military body or it may have been only some of the Levitical guard who were sent. The same word is used (Luk 4:20) of the "minister" of the synagogue.