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.

Saying: The prison indeed we found shut with all diligence, and the keepers standing before the doors; but opening it, we found no man within.

saying, We found the prison shut with all security, and the keepers standing at the doors; but when we had opened them, within we found no one.

saying, 'The prison indeed we found shut in all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors, and having opened, within we found no one.'

saying, "The jail we found quite safely locked, and the warders were on guard at the doors, but upon going in we found no one there."

Saying, The doors of the prison were safely shut, and the keepers were at the doors, but when they were open, there was nobody inside.

saying: "We found the prison certainly locked up with all diligence, and the guards standing before the door. But upon opening it, we found no one within."

while they had found the goal barred securely and the guards posted at the doors, yet, on opening them, they had not found anyone inside.

Found we shut - It had not been broken open; and there was therefore clear proof that they had been delivered by the interposition of God. Nor could they have been released by the guard, for they were keeping watch, as if unconscious that anything had happened, and the officers had the only means of entering the prison.

The prison truly found we shut - All the doors were properly bolted, and the keepers at their post; but when we had opened, for it appears they were alone in possession of the keys; how much must this have increased their astonishment when they found that the doors were not broken open, the guards properly posted, and every thing as they left it, for they themselves had put the apostles in prison; but, when they had opened, there was no man within!

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 discharging their office:
but when we had opened we found no man within; that is, none of the apostles, for there might be other prisoners in it, who were not released by this means.

the prison . . . shut . . . keepers . . . before the doors, but . . . no man within--the reverse of the miracle in Acts 16:26; a similar contrast to that of the nets at the miraculous draughts of fishes (Luke 5:6; John 21:11).

The prison truly found we shut. All was as usual and the guards before the doors, but the prisoners gone.

We found the prison shut - The angel probably had shut the doors again.