Acts 16:35

But when it was day, the magistrates sent the lictors, saying: Release those men.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go.

In Context

34And he brought them into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced, believing in God, with all his house.

36And the jailer told these words to Paul: The magistrates have sent to release you. Now, therefore, come out, and go in peace.

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Cross References

Acts 4:21And when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing for which they could punish them, because of the people; for they all glorified God on account of that which had been done;

Matthew Henry on Acts 16:26-35

Paul and Silas in Prison; Conversion of the Philippian Jailer. 25 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. 26 And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed. 27 And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had… Read the whole commentary →

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