Acts 16:35

And when it was day, the praetors sent the lictors, saying, Let those men go.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

34And having brought them into his house he laid the table [for them], and rejoiced with all his house, having believed in God.

36And the jailor reported these words to Paul: The praetors have sent that ye may be let go. Now therefore go out and depart in peace.

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Cross References

Psalms 76:10For the fury of man shall praise thee; the remainder of fury wilt thou gird on thyself.

Acts 4:21But they, having further threatened them, let them go, finding no way how they might punish them, on account of the people, because all glorified God for what had taken place;

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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