Acts 16:24
Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
Webster Bible
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In Context
25And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises to God: and the prisoners heard them.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 16:10Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing . And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.
Job 33:11He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.
Jeremiah 20:2Then Pashur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.
Jeremiah 37:15Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and beat him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.
Lamentations 3:53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
Matthew Henry on Acts 16:17-25
The Expulsion of an Evil Spirit; Persecution of Philippi. 16 And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying: 17 The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which show unto us the way of salvation. 18 And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he… Read the whole commentary →