Acts 16:39

So they came and spoke kindly to them, and fetching them out, besought them to depart from the city.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

In The King James Version

And they came and besought them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the city.

In Context

38Then the lictors reported all these words to the magistrates: and they were terrified, when they heard they were Roman citizens.

40Then leaving the prison, they went unto Lydia: and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them, and went their way.

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Cross References

Matthew 8:34And, behold, all the city came out to meet him: and when they saw him, they besought him to depart from their territories.

Revelation 3:9Behold, I give thee out of Satan’s synagogue those who say they are Jews, yet they are not, but do lie. Lo! I will make them that they shall come and prostrate themselves at thy feet, and they shall know that I have loved thee.

Matthew Henry on Acts 16:36-40

Paul and Silas Released. 35 And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go. 36 And the keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul, The magistrates have sent to let you go: now therefore depart, and go in peace. 37 But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out. 38 And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates:… Read the whole commentary →

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