Acts 16:35

In the morning the Magistrates sent the guards with an order for the men to be discharged.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

34Afterwards he took them up to his house and set before them something to eat, rejoicing that he, with all his household, had come to believe in God.

36The jailer told Paul of his instructions. ‘The Magistrates have sent an order for your discharge,’ he said, ‘so you had better leave the place at once and go quietly away.’

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Cross References

Psalms 76:10The fiercest will praise you, to you will the remnant hold festival.

Acts 4:21However, after further warnings, the Council set them at liberty, not seeing any safe way of punishing them, because of the people, for they were all praising God for what 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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