Acts 16:35 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go. ”

• Acts 16:35 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And when it was day ... - It is evident from the narrative that it was not contemplated at first to release them so soon, Acts 16:22-24 . But it is not known what produced this change of purpose...

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• Acts 16:35 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (19) And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go. (19) Shame and confusion is in due time the reward of wicked and unjust magistrates.

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• Acts 16:35 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Reckoning with the Magistrates. The legal proceedings are to go no further. But Paul has two grievances to clear up with the magistrates before he will leave the prison. The proceedings of the form...

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• Acts 16:35 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  sent . Greek. apostello. App-174. Serjeants . lictors. Greek. rabdouchos. See Acts 16:22 . Only here and Acts 16:38 . Let... go . Release. Gr, apoluo. App-174.

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• Acts 16:35 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  − 35. When it was day. The question is, how it came to pass that the judges did so suddenly change their purpose? The day before they had commanded that Paul and Silas should be bound with f...

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• Acts 16:35 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go. And the magistrates sent the sergeants - The original word, ῥαβδουχους, means the lictors, persons who carried befo...

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• Acts 16:35 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  The magistrates sent— The magistrates who had ordered Paul and Silas to be scourged and imprisoned without a legal trial, or any crime proved against them, seem to have had a more disturbed night t...

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• Acts 16:35 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go. And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, х tous ( G3588 ) rabdouchous ( G4465 )] -...

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• Acts 16:35 - 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 16:35 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The magistrates sent the serjeants. — Literally, the rod-bearers, or lictors. They would probably be the very officers who had inflicted the stripes. We are not told what led to this sudden cha...

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• Acts 16:35 - 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 16:35 - 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 16:35 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  And when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, 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 d...

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• Acts 16:35 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And when it was day ,.... In one copy Beza says, these words are added, "the magistrates came together in one place in the court, and remembering the earthquake that was made, they were afraid, and...

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• Acts 16:35 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go. Ver. 35. The magistrates sent ] In one ancient Greek copy there is this addition, "And when it was day, the magi...

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• Acts 16:35 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  When it was day, the magistrates Or pretors, being terrified, probably, by the earthquake, which had been felt all over the city, and having been informed of the miraculous opening of the prison-do...

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• Acts 16:35 - 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 16:35 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Paul and Silas Released.       35 And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go.   36 And the keeper...

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• Acts 16:35 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The serjeants; their messengers, or officers, which did carry a mace, or a rod, from whence they had their name. Saying, Let those men go; probably being terrified with the earthquake, which if i...

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• Acts 16:35 - 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 16:35 - 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 16:35 - Scofield Reference Notes

  serjeants (Greek, "rhabdouchos").

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• Acts 16:35 - 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 16:35 - The Biblical Illustrator

  And they spake unto him the Word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house. Household salvation It sometimes happens that a good man has to go alone to heaven: God’s election has separated...

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• Acts 16:35 - 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 16:35 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  And when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, Let those men go.

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• Acts 16:35 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Acts 4:21 ; Acts 5:40 ; Jeremiah 5:22 ; Psalms 76:10

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• Acts 16:35 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The pretors sent — Being probably terrified by the earthquake; saying, Let those men go — How different from the charge given a few hours before! And how great an ease of mind to the jailer!

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