Acts 16:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Laid many stripes upon them; partly by the lictors or executioners, and partly by the furious rabble. The jailer; this jailer's name (of whose conversion we read hereafter) was Stephanas, as may appear if you compare 1 Corinthians 1:16 with what follows by St. Luke in this story. Of him also we read, 1 Corinthians 16:15,17.

Acts 16:23

23 And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely: