King James Version
Acts 5:22 in the King James Version says “But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned, and told,” — study this verse from Acts chapter 5 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned, and told,”
Acts 5:22 · KJV
Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.
And 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.
But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned, and told,
Saying, 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.
Now 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.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“when the officers”
G5257an under-oarsman, i.e., (generally) subordinate (assistant, sexton, constable)
“came”
G3854to become near, i.e., approach (have arrived); by implication, to appear publicly
“them”
G846the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative g1438) of the third person, and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons
“the prison”
G5438a guarding or (concretely, guard), the act, the person; figuratively, the place, the condition, or (specially), the time (as a division of day or nigh
“they returned”
G390to overturn; also to return; by implication, to busy oneself, i.e., remain, live
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