reported, "We found the prison safely locked and the keepers on duty at the doors, but on opening the doors we found no one on the inside."

A fountain cannot pour from the same opening fresh and brackish water, can it?

and a young man named Eutychus, who was sitting by the window, was gradually overcome by heavy drowsiness, as Paul kept speaking longer and longer, and at last he went fast asleep and fell from the third story to the ground and was picked up dead.

and for me that a message may be given me when I open my lips, so that I may boldly make known the open secret of the good news,

At the same time keep on praying for me too, that God may open the door of opportunity for the message, so that I may tell the open secret about Christ, for the sake of which I am held a prisoner,

"To the messenger of the church in Philadelphia write: 'The Holy and True One, who carries the keys of David, who opens and no one can shut, who shuts and no one can open, speaks as follows:

I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened; it was the book of life, And the dead were judged by what was written in the books in accordance with what they had done.

Then their eyes were instantly opened and they recognized Him, and at once He vanished from them.

Then He opened their minds so that they might continue to understand the Scriptures,

Then He said to him, "I most solemnly say to you all, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God going up, and coming down upon the Son of Man!"

But in the night the angel of the Lord threw open the jail doors and let them out, and said to them,

So he said, "Look! I see heaven open, and the Son of Man standing at God's right hand."

Now this was the passage of Scripture that he was reading: "Like a sheep He was led away to be slaughtered, and just as a lamb is dumb before its shearer, so He does not open His mouth.