Acts 16:23

many blows also having laid upon them, they cast them to prison, having given charge to the jailor to keep them safely,

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely:

In Context

22And the multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates having torn their garments from them, were commanding to beat [them] with rods,

24who such a charge having received, did put them to the inner prison, and their feet made fast in the stocks.

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Cross References

Joshua 4:17And Joshua commandeth the priests, saying, 'Come ye up out of the Jordan.'

Matthew 26:48And he who did deliver him up did give them a sign, saying, 'Whomsoever I will kiss, it is he: lay hold on him;'

Luke 21:12and before all these, they shall lay on you their hands, and persecute, delivering up to synagogues and prisons, being brought before kings and governors for my name's sake;

Acts 5:23saying — 'The prison indeed we found shut in all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors, and having opened — within we found no one.'

Acts 9:2did ask from him letters to Damascus, unto the synagogues, that if he may find any being of the way, both men and women, he may bring them bound to Jerusalem.

Acts 12:18And day having come, there was not a little stir among the soldiers what then was become of Peter,

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 →

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