Acts 16:35

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

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

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

36And the keeper of the prison reported these words to Paul: The magistrates have sent to let you go; now therefore depart, and go in peace.

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Cross References

Acts 4:21And they, having further threatened them, let them go, finding no way to punish them, on account of the people, because all glorified God for that which was 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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