Acts 16:35

Now when it became day, the magistrates sent the officers, saying, “Release those men.”

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

34And bringing them up into his house, he set a meal before them; and he rejoiced with his whole house, having believed in God.

36And the prison keeper told these words to Paul, saying, “The magistrates have sent so that you may be released. Now therefore depart, and go in peace.”

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Cross References

Acts 4:21So having threatened them further, they released them, finding no way of punishing them, on account of the people, because they all were glorifying God over that which had occurred.

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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