But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned, and told,

But when the ministers came, and opening the prison, found them not there, they returned and told,

and the officers having come, did not find them in the prison, and having turned back, they told,

But the officers went and could not find them in the prison. So they came back and brought word,

But the men who were sent saw that they were not in the prison, and came back with the news,

But when the attendants had arrived, and, upon opening the prison, had not found them, they returned and reported to them,

But, when the officers got there, they did not find them in the prison; so they returned and reported that,

But when the officers came,.... The Arabic version adds, "to it"; that is, to the prison;
and found them not in the prison. The Vulgate Latin version reads, "the prison being opened they found them not"; when they came to the prison, they opened the doors of it, or the keepers for them; for though the angel had opened them for the apostles, yet he shut them again, as he brought them out; for these men found the doors shut, as the following verse shows, and who upon opening them and searching the prison, for the apostles, could find none of them in it; wherefore they returned; the Arabic version reads, "to them"; to the sanhedrim:
and told; that is, them, as both the Arabic and Ethiopic versions read.