Acts 16:35

But in the morning the praetors sent their lictors with the order, "Let these men go."

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

34And after bringing them up into his house, he set food before them, overjoyed with all his household in having believed in God.

36The jailer reported the words to Paul, saying. "The praetors have sent to release you; so come out, and go in peace."

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Cross References

Acts 4:21So when they had further threatened them they let the apostles go, being quite unable to find any way of punishing them because of the people, for everybody was glorifying God over 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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