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Acts 5:25 KJV
Acts · chapter 5 · verse 25
Then came one and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people.Acts 5:25 · King James Version
Acts 5:25 in context
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.
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.
25Then came one and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people.
26Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.
27And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them,
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- standinghistēmito cause or make to stand, to place, put, set, to bid to stand by, [set up], in the…G2476 →
- teachingdidaskōto teach, to hold discourse with others in order to instruct them, deliver didactic…G1321 →
- sayinglegōto say, to speak, affirm over, maintain, to teach, to exhort, advise, to command, direct…G3004 →
- sayinghotithat, because, sinceG3754 →
- Beholdidoubehold, see, loG2400 →
- prisonphylakēguard, watch, a watching, keeping watch, to keep watch, persons keeping watch, a guard…G5438 →
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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 destroyer of mankind, ever was, and will be, an adversary to those who are the benefactors of mankind;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 17-25