Acts 16:22 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them. ”

• Acts 16:22 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And the multitude ... - It is evident that this was done in a popular tumult, and without even the form of law. Of this Paul afterward justly complained, as it was a violation of the privileges o...

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• Acts 16:22 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (14) And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat [them]. (14) An example of evil magistrates, to obey the fury and rage of the...

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• Acts 16:22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Imprisonment of Paul and Silas. The Prison Broken. The rulers ( Acts 16:19 ) are the heads of police; they are afterwards called Strategi, which answers to the Roman Prœ tores. Philippi was a c...

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• Acts 16:22 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  multitude . crowd. Greek. ochlos. rose up together . Greek. sunephistemi. Only here. against . Greek. kata. App-104. rent off . Greek. perirregnumi. Only here. beat them . beat them...

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• Acts 16:22 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  − 22. The multitude came together. When Luke declareth that there was great encourses of the people made, after that a few men of no reputation, to wit, such as did juggle and cozen to get g...

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• Acts 16:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them . The multitude rose up together - There was a general outcry against them; an...

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• Acts 16:22 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  The magistrates rent off their clothes,— This was the Roman method of proceeding in such cases, and it was also practised among the Jews. The latter part of this verse might be rendered more clearl...

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• Acts 16:22 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them. And the multitude rose up together against them. So Acts 19:28 ; Act...

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• Acts 16:22 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  St. Paul in Europe 1. Timotheus] was probably of Lystra, not Derbe. His mother Eunice was perhaps a widow, and she, together with his grandmother Lois, educated the lad in the religion of Israel,...

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• Acts 16:22 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Commanded to beat them. — The Greek verb gives the special Roman form of punishment, that of being beaten with the rods of the lictors. This, therefore, takes its place as one of the three instance...

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• Acts 16:22 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Welcomed; Attested; Imprisoned Acts 16:14-24 This was an epoch-making moment, but how quietly it is recorded. There was no heralding of the gospel which was to transform Europe. The need for it...

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• Acts 16:22 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Here begins the account of Pads second journey. At Lystra he found Timothy. His action in the circumcision of Timothy is startling in view of the recent decision of the council. Some charge him with...

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• Acts 16:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers, (20) And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These...

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• Acts 16:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And the multitude rose up together against them ,.... The crowd of people that were gathered together in the court on this occasion; being no doubt spirited up by the proprietors of the maid, out of...

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• Acts 16:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them . Ver. 22. Rent off their clothes ] i.e. the apostles' clothes. And...

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• Acts 16:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And the multitude rose up against them Excited and inflamed by these accusations; and the magistrates Or the pretors; rent off their clothes That is, the clothes of Paul and Silas; for such was...

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• Acts 16:22 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  Coming to Derbe and Lystra, where he and Barnabas had been persecuted before, Paul was favorably impressed with the young man, Timothy, who had evidently been converted through Paul on his first visi...

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• Acts 16:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Expulsion of an Evil Spirit; Persecution of Philippi.       16 And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed...

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• Acts 16:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The multitude; generality and unanimity alone cannot authorize opinions or practices. Rent off their clothes; Paul's and Silas's clothes, to disgrace them the more, or in order unto their being s...

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• Acts 16:22 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Ministry in Philippi From the House of Lydia (16:12b-40). The arrival in Europe was clearly seen by Luke as very important. He illustrates the successful ministry there by a threefold description...

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• Acts 16:22 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 16:19 . The rulers, ἄρχοντες, were the town magistrates ( Luke 12:58 ). Acts 16:20 . The magistrates , στρατηγοί, were the two chief civic authorities (dunmviri) in a R...

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• Acts 16:22 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Acts 16:9 . And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us. Our dreams often follow the leading thoughts...

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• Acts 16:22 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Acts 16:1 . Then came he to Lystra, as in Acts 14:6 . In their former labours in that city, Lois a jewess, her daughter Eunice, and Timothy her son, had embraced the faith. Now, they found Timoth...

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• Acts 16:22 - The Biblical Illustrator

  A certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination. The Pythoness The words, literally, are as in the margin, a spirit of Python, or, as some MSS. give it, a Python spirit. The Python was t...

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• Acts 16:22 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Acts 16:1 And he came also for then came he, A.V. and T.R.; to Lystra for Lystra, A.V. ; Timothy for Timotheus, A.V. ; of a Jewess for of a certain woman which was...

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• Acts 16:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Paul and Silas imprisoned:

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• Acts 16:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Peter 2:24 ; 1 Thessalonians 2:2 ; 2 Corinthians 11:23-25 ; 2 Corinthians 6:5 ; Acts 17:5 ; Acts 18:12 ; Acts 19:28 ; Acts 21:30 ; Acts 21:31 ; Acts 22:22 ; Acts 22:23 ; Acts 16:37 ; A...

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