Acts 16:35

When daylight came, the magistrates sent their officers with the order: “Release those men.”

Majority Standard Bible

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 home and set a meal before them. So he and all his household rejoiced that they had come to believe in God.

36The jailer informed Paul: “The magistrates have sent orders to release you. Now you may go on your way in peace.”

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Cross References

Psalms 76:10Even the wrath of man shall praise You; with the survivors of wrath You will clothe Yourself.

Acts 4:21After further threats they let them go. They could not find a way to punish them, because all the people were glorifying God for 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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