Acts 16:29 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Then he called for a light. — More accurately, ‘for lights. As St. Luke does not use, as in Acts 20:8, the word for “lamps,” it is probable that the lights were torches, and that the gaoler, with one in his hand, leapt into the darkness of the subterranean dungeon.

Acts 16:29

29 Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas,