Acts 5:25

25 Then someone came in and announced, “Look, the men you put in jail are standing in the temple courts teaching the people!”

Acts 5:25 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 5:25

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.

Acts 5:25 In-Context

23 “We found the jail securely locked, with the guards posted at the doors; but when we opened them, we found no one inside.”

24 When the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests heard this account, they were perplexed as to what was happening.

25 Then someone came in and announced, “Look, the men you put in jail are standing in the temple courts teaching the people!”

26 At that point, the captain went with the officers and brought the apostles—but not by force, for fear the people would stone them.

27 They brought them in and made them stand before the Sanhedrin, where the high priest interrogated them.