“Saying, 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.”
When the officers arrived at the jail, they did not find them. So they went back and reported - 'We found the jail securely locked, with the guards standing at the doors; but when we opened them, we found no one inside' - the officers' report is precise and bemused: the security is intact (thyrai kleimenai asphalōs, securely locked) but the prisoners are gone. This is not a security failure but a supernatural escape; Luke emphasizes the locked doors and the stationed guards to make the impossibility clear. The guards themselves remain unexplained and unpunished.
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