Acts 5:18

Acts 5:18

16 Also a multitude gathered from the surrounding cities to Jerusalem, bringing ^asick people and those who were tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all healed.

Imprisoned Apostles Freed

17 ^aThen the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with¹ indignation,

18 ^aand laid their hands on the apostles and put them in the common prison.

19 But at night ^aan angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out, and said,

20 “Go, stand in the temple and speak to the people ^aall the words of this life.”

21 And when they heard that, they entered the temple early in the morning and taught. ^aBut the high priest and those with him came and called the¹ council together, with all the² elders of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

Apostles on Trial Again

22 But when the officers came and did not find them in the prison, they returned and reported,

23 saying, “Indeed we found the prison shut securely, and the guards standing¹ outside before the doors; but when we opened them, we found no one inside!”

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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With jealousy (zhlou). Genitive case. Old word from ze", to boil, our zeal. In itself it means only warmth, ardour, zeal, but for a bad cause or from a bad motive, jealousy, envy, rivalry results (Acts 13:45). Common in the epistles.

In public ward (en thrhsei dhmosiai). As in Acts 4:3 only with dhmosiai (public) added, in the public prison, perhaps not the "common" prison, but any prison is bad enough. In verse Acts 5:19 it is called "the prison" (thv fulakhv), the guardhouse.

**Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Acts 5:18:**

Acts 4:3
Acts 5:21
Acts 12:1
Acts 12:4
Acts 18:28

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