Acts 16:35

And day having come, the magistrates sent the rod-bearers, saying, “Let those men go”;

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

34having also brought them into his house, he set food before [them], and was glad with all the household, he having believed in God.

36and the jailor told these words to Paul, “The magistrates have sent, that you may be let go; now, therefore, having gone forth go on in peace”;

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Cross References

Psalms 76:10For the fierceness of man praises You, || You gird on the remnant of fierceness.

Acts 4:21And they having further threatened [them], let them go, finding no way how they may punish them, because of the people, because all were glorifying God for that which has been 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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