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A Confounding Miracle
Commentators highlight the baffling nature of the scene. The officers arrived to find the prison securely shut and the guards at their posts, yet the apostles were gone. Scholars like John Gill note that the angel must have re-shut the doors, making the escape supernaturally clean and leaving the authorities to suspect an inside job, unable to comprehend God's direct intervention.
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AT Robertson
On Acts 5:22
The officers (ο υπηρετα). Under-rowers, literally (Matthew 5:25). The servants or officers who executed the orders of …
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Acts 5:19–27
(19–21a) This is one of three “opening of the prison doors” stories in the book of Acts (cf. 12:6–11; 16:26–29). The “angel of the Lord” is the NT …
John Gill
On Acts 5:22
17th Century
Pastor
But when the officers came
The Arabic version adds, "to it"; that is, to the prison;
and found th…
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Matthew Henry
On Acts 5:17–25
17th Century
Minister
There is no prison so dark, so strong, that God cannot visit His people in it and, if He pleases, bring them out. Recoveries from sickness, release…