Acts 5:23

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Saying: The pryson truely founde we shut with all diligence, & the kepers standyng without, before the doores: But when we had opened, we founde no man within.

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  • Ps 2:4 : 4 He that dwelleth in heauen wyll laugh them to scorne: the Lorde wyll haue them in derision.
  • Ps 33:10 : 10 God bringeth the counsell of the Heathen to naught: and maketh the deuises of the people to be of none effect.
  • Prov 21:30 : 30 There is no wysdome, there is no vnderstanding, there is no counsayle against the Lorde.
  • Lam 3:37 : 37 What is he then that saith, there should some thing be done without the Lordes commaundement?
  • Lam 3:55-58 : 55 I called vpon thy name O Lorde out of the deepe pit. 56 Thou hast heard my voyce, and hast not turned away thyne eares from my sighing and crying. 57 Thou hast inclyned thy selfe vnto me when I called vpon thee: and hast said, feare not. 58 Thou (O Lorde) hast mayntayned the cause of my soule, and hast redeemed my lyfe.
  • Dan 3:11-25 : 11 And who so then fel not downe, & worshipped not, that he shoulde be cast into the mids of an hot firie fornace. 12 Now are there certayne Iewes, whom thou hast set ouer the charge of the prouince of Babylon: namely Sidrach, Misach, and Abednego: these men, O king, regarded not thy commaundement: yea they will not serue thy gods, nor worship the golden image that thou hast set vp. 13 Then Nabuchodonozor in his anger and wrath commaunded that Sidrach, Misach, & Abednego should be brought vnto hym: so these men were brought before the king. 14 Then Nabuchodonozor spake vnto them, and sayde: Is it true, O Sidrach, Misach, & Abednego, will not you serue my gods, nor worship the golden image that I haue set vp? 15 Nowe therfore be redy when ye heare the sound of the cornet, trumpet, harpe, shawme, psaltries, dulcimers, and al instrumentes of musicke, to fal downe and worship the image whiche I haue made: for if ye worship it not, ye shalbe cast immediatly into the mids of a hot firie fornace: for who is that God that can deliuer you out of my handes? 16 Sidrach, Misach, and Abednego aunswered the king, and sayd: O Nabuchodonozor, we are not carefull to aunswere thee in this matter: 17 Beholde, our God whom we serue, is able to deliuer vs from the hot firie fornace: and he wil deliuer vs out of thy hande O king. 18 And though he will not, yet shalt thou knowe O king, that we will not serue thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set vp. 19 Then was Nabuchodonozor full of indignation, so that the countenaunce of his face chaunged vpon Sidrach, Misach, and Abednego: therefore he charged and commaunded that they should heate the fornace, one seuen times more then it was wont to be heat. 20 And he charged the most valiaunt men of warre that were in his armie, to bind Sidrach, Misach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the hot firie fornace. 21 So these men were bounde in their coates, hosen, head attire, with their other garmentes, and cast into the mids of the hot firie fornace. 22 Therefore, because the kinges commaundement was straite, & the fornace was exceeding hot, the men that put in Sidrach, Misach, and Abednego, the flamble of the fire destroyed them. 23 And these three men Sidrach, Misach, and Abednego, fel downe in the mids of the hot firie fornace bounde. 24 Then Nabuchodonozor the king was astonied, & rose vp in all haste: he spake vnto his counsel, and sayd, Dyd not we cast three men bounde into the mids of the fire? They aunswered and sayde vnto the king: It is true, O king. 25 He aunswered & sayde: Lo, I see foure men loose, walking in the mids of ye fire, and they haue no hurt: and the fourme of the fourth is like the sonne of God.
  • Dan 6:22-24 : 22 My God hath sent his angel, which hath shut the lions mouthes, so that they might not hurt me, for myne vngiltinesse is founde out before him: and as for thee O king, I neuer offended thee. 23 Then was the king exceeding glad for him, & commaunded to take Daniel out of the denne: So Daniel was brought out of ye denne, & no maner of hurt was founde vpon him, for he put his trust in his God. 24 And as for those men which had accused Daniel, the king commaunded to bring them, & to cast them into the lions denne, them, their children, & their wyues: so the lions had the maisterie of them, and brake all their bones asunder or euer they came at the grounde of the denne.
  • Matt 27:63-66 : 63 Saying. Sir, we remember that this deceauer sayde whyle he was yet aliue: After three dayes I wil arise agayne. 64 Commaunde therfore, that the sepulchre be made sure, vntyll the thirde day: lest his disciples come by nyght & steale hym away, and say vnto the people, he is rysen from the dead: & the last error shalbe worse then the first. 65 Pilate sayde vnto them: Ye haue the watche, go your way, make it as sure as ye knowe. 66 So they went, and made the sepulchre sure with the watch, and sealed the stone.
  • Matt 28:12-15 : 12 And they gathered the together, with the elders, and toke councell, and gaue large money vnto the souldiers, 13 Saying. Saye ye, that his disciples came by nyght, & stole hym away while ye slept. 14 And yf this come to the deputies eares we wyll perswade hym, and saue you harmelesse. 15 So they toke the money, & dyd as they were taught. And this saying is noysed among the Iewes, vntyl this day.
  • John 8:59 : 59 Then toke they vp stones to caste at hym: but Iesus hyd hym selfe, and went out of the temple.
  • Acts 5:19 : 19 But the Angel of the Lorde by nyght opened the prison doores, and brought them foorth, and sayde:

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    18 And layed handes on the Apostles, and put them in the common prison.

    19 But the Angel of the Lorde by nyght opened the prison doores, and brought them foorth, and sayde:

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    21 And when they hearde that, they entred into the temple early in ye mornyng, and taught: But the chiefe priest came, and they that were with hym, & called a counsayle together, and all the elders of the chyldren of Israel, and sent to the pryson to fet them.

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    26 Then went the ruler of the temple, with the officers, and brought them without violence: (For they feared the people, lest they should haue ben stoned)

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    7 And beholde, the Angel of ye Lorde was there present, and a lyght shyned in the habitation: And he smote Peter on the syde, and stirred hym vp, saying: Aryse vp quickly. And his chaynes fell of from his handes.

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    3 And they went in: but founde not the body of the Lorde Iesu.

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    20 For we cannot but speake that, which we haue seene and hearde.

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    9 And when they were sufficiently aunswered of Iason, and of the other, they let them go.

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