Acts 16:36
And the keeper of the prison told these words to Paul: The magistrates have sent to let you go; now therefore depart, and go in peace.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
35And when the day was come, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go.
Cross References
Exodus 4:18Moses went his way, and returned to Jethro his father in law and said to him: I will go and return to my brethren into Egypt, that I may see if they be yet alive. And Jethro said to him: Go in peace.
1 Samuel 1:17Then Heli said to her: Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition, which thou hast asked of him.
1 Samuel 25:35And David received at her hand all that she had brought him, and said to her: Go in peace into thy house, behold I have heard thy voice, and have honoured thy face.
2 Kings 5:19And he said to him: Go in peace. So he departed from him in the springtime of the earth.
John 14:27Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, do I give unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid.
Acts 16:27And the keeper of the prison, awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the doors of the prison open, drawing his sword, would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.
Matthew Henry on Acts 16:36-40
Paul and Silas Released. 35 And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go. 36 And the keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul, The magistrates have sent to let you go: now therefore depart, and go in peace. 37 But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out. 38 And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates:… Read the whole commentary →