Acts 16:35

Now when it was day the magistrates sent the officers saying, “Let those men go.”

Family 35 New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

34Then he brought them into his house and set a meal before them, and he was really rejoicing, having believed in God with his whole family.

36So the jailer reported these words to Paul, “The magistrates have sent to release you; so now you can leave and go in peace.”

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Cross References

Acts 4:21So threatening them some more they released them, not finding any way to punish them, because of the people, since they were all glorifying God over what had happened;

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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