Acts 16:28
Paul saw the jailer and shouted to him, “Do not harm yourself! We (exc) prisoners are all here!”
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here.
In Context
Cross References
Leviticus 19:18‘Do not try to get revenge against someone or be angry with someone for a long time. Instead, love other people like you love yourself. I, Yahweh your God, am commanding this.
Psalms 35:14I mourned and bowed my head as I prayed as though it was a friend or my mother for whom I was grieving.
Proverbs 24:11If it is unjustly decided that someone must be executed, try hard to rescue them [DOU].
Matthew 5:44But now listen to what I say to you: Love your enemies as well as your friends, and pray for those who cause you to suffer.
Luke 10:32Similarly, a man who worked in the temple in Jerusalem came to that place and saw the man. But he also passed by on the other side of the road.
Luke 23:34Jesus prayed, “ My Father, forgive them, because they do not realize whom they are doing this to!” Then the soldiers divided Jesus’ clothing by gambling with something like dice, to decide which piece of clothing each one would get.
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 →