Acts 16:38

This answer the lictors took back to the praetors, who were alarmed when they were told that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans.

In Context

37But Paul said to them, "After cruelly beating us in public, without trial, Roman citizens though we are, they have thrown us into prison, and are they now going to send us away privately? No, indeed! Let them come in person and fetch us out."

39Accordingly they came and apologized to them; and, bringing them out, asked them to leave the city.

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Cross References

Matthew 14:5And he would have liked to put him to death, but was afraid of the people, because they regarded John as a Prophet.

Acts 22:29So the men who had been on the point of putting him under torture immediately left him. And the Tribune, too, was frightened when he learnt that Paul was a Roman citizen, for he had had him bound.

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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