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.
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Acts 16:29
29 Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas,