Acts 16:35

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

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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...
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...
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...
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....
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 co...
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, ῥαβδο...
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 again...
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...
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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Journey into Europe, Philippi. 6. RV 'And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden of the Holy Ghost to speak the...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

According to D, the motive of St. Paul's release was alarm at the earthquake. The Serjeants ] Gk. 'the lictors,' officers who attended the magistrat...
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 st...
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...
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 rec...
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 ma...
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 t...
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 ther...
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 i...
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 evide...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Paul and Silas Released. 35 And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjean...
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; probab...
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 suc...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘But when it was day, the magistrates sent the lictors, saying, “Let those men go.” ' Next day the lictors were sent by the magistrates with instruc...
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...
Scofield Reference Notes

serjeants (Greek, "rhabdouchos").
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 s...
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 t...
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...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

³⁵ And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go.

Related Commentaries of Acts 16:35

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Scofield Reference Notes

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Acts 16:35