Acts - 5:25



25 One came and told them, "Behold, the men whom you put in prison are in the temple, standing and teaching the people."

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But one came and told them: Behold, the men whom you put in prison are in the temple standing, and teaching the people.
And some one coming reported to them, Lo, the men whom ye put in the prison are in the temple, standing and teaching the people.
And some one came and brought them word, saying, "The men you put in prison are actually in the Temple, standing there, teaching the people."
And someone came and said to them, The men, whom you put in prison, are in the Temple teaching the people.
But someone arrived and reported to them, "Behold, the men whom you placed in prison are in the temple, standing and teaching the people."
Presently, however, someone came and told them, that the men whom they had put in prison were actually standing in the Temple Courts, teaching the people.

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Then came one and told them - While they were in the perplexity mentioned above, a messenger surprised them with the information that the very men whom they had imprisoned the preceding night were standing in the temple and teaching the people!

(7) Then came one and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people.
(7) The more openly that Christ's power shows itself, the more the madness of his enemies who conspire against him increases.

Then came one and told them, saying,.... Who this man was, is of no consequence to know; it can hardly be thought that he was one of the number of the disciples, or a member of the church, or a professor of the Christian religion; but rather an enemy, and one that sought his own interest, and to obtain the favour and affection of the chief priests and elders, and therefore very officiously came to them, and reported as follows:
behold, the men whom ye put in prison, last night,
are standing in the temple; openly and publicly, and without fear;
and teaching the people; in the name of Jesus, which the sanhedrim had forbid them to do.

Then came one and told them. The mystery was explained by the word that, as usual, the apostles were preaching in the temple.

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