Acts 16:25 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. ”

• Acts 16:25 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And at midnight - Probably their painful posture, and the sufferings of their recent scourging, prevented their. sleeping. Yet, though they had no repose, they had a quiet conscience, and the sup...

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• Acts 16:25 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (15) And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. (15) The prayers of the godly do shake both heaven and earth.

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• Acts 16:25 - 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 16:25 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  midnight . Greek. meaonuktion. Only here, Acts 20:7 ; Mark 13:35 . Luke 11:5 . prayed, and . praying. Greek. proseuchomai. App-134. sang praises unto . Literally were hymning. Greek. humn...

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• Acts 16:25 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. At midnight Paul and Silas - sang praises - Though these holy men felt much, and had reason to fear mor...

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• Acts 16:25 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  And at midnight Paul and Silas, &c.— These blessed apostles were as little daunted at suffering, as elevated when they were caressed and about to be adored for their miraculous cures. This was...

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• Acts 16:25 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God, х proseuchomenoi ( G4336...

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• Acts 16:25 - 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 16:25 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises. — Better, praying, they Were singing hymns, the Greek expressing one act rather than two. The act was, we may believe, habitual, and they...

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• Acts 16:25 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Salvation in the Jail Acts 16:25-40 Some, as we have seen, are converted by the gentle opening of the heart; others amid the convulsions of the storm. The first knowledge of salvation may have...

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• Acts 16:25 - 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 16:25 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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...

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• Acts 16:25 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed , When others were asleep, and all things were still and quiet; Psalms 119:62 , and they prayed doubtless for themselves, for their deliverance in God's time a...

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• Acts 16:25 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. Ver. 25. Sang praises unto God ] His presence turns a prison into a palace, into a paradise. "From...

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• Acts 16:25 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  At midnight Paul and Silas prayed Doubtless, for their persecutors as well as for themselves; and sang praises unto God Notwithstanding weariness, hunger, stripes, and blood; and the prisoners h...

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• Acts 16:25 - 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 16:25 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Paul and Silas in Prison; Conversion of the Philippian Jailer.       25 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God:...

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• Acts 16:25 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No time or place where prayer is not acceptable unto God, and prevalent with him; nay, it sounds the sweeter when on the waters of affliction a good man pours it forth unto God. Sang praises unto Go...

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• Acts 16:25 - 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 16:25 - 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 16:25 - Scofield Reference Notes

  prayed Literally, were praying and singing hymns.

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• Acts 16:25 - 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 16:25 - 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 16:25 - 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 16:25 - 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 16:25 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God; and the prisoners heard them.

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• Acts 16:25 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Peter 1:6-8 ; 1 Peter 4:14 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 ; 2 Corinthians 4:16 ; 2 Corinthians 4:17 ; 2 Corinthians 4:8 ; 2 Corinthians 4:9 ; 2 Corinthians 6:10 ; Acts 5:41 ; Colossians 1:24 ;...

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• Acts 16:25 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Paul and Silas sung a hymn to God — Notwithstanding weariness, hunger stripes, and blood. And the prisoners heard — A song to which they were not accustomed.

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