23Saying, 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.
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The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said,
And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth, that he should be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. …
Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-25)Never did any good work go on with any hope of success, but it met with opposition; those that are bent to do mischief cannot be reconciled to those who make it their business to do good. Satan, the destroyer of mankind, ever was, and will be, an adversary to those who are the benefactors of mankind; and it would have been strange if the apostles had gone on thus teaching and healing and had had n…
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