Acts 16:35

When daybreak came, the magistrates sent their officers, saying, “Release those men.”

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

34After bringing Paul and Silas into his house, he set a meal before them. And he rejoiced, along with his entire household, because he had come to believe in God.

36So the jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, “The magistrates have sent orders for you to be released. Therefore come out now and go in peace.”

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Cross References

Acts 4:21So after threatening Peter and John further, they released them, finding no 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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