Acts 16:24

Thus they dealt with Joseph, Genesis 39:20, compared with Psalms 105:18, and with Jeremiah, and with John Baptist. Sanctorum sors est, et non moleste ferenda.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thrust them into the inner prison - Into the most retired and secure part of the prison. The cells in the interior of the prison would be regarde...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet (h) fast in the stocks. (h) Because he wanted to be more...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Imprisonment of Paul and Silas. The Prison Broken. The rulers ( Acts 16:19 ) are the heads of police; they are afterwards called Strategi, which...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

thrust . cast, as Acts 16:23 . inner . Greek. esoteros. Comparative of eso, within. Only here and Hebrews 6:19 . made... fast . made safe....
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks. The inner prison - Probably what we wo...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Made their feet fast in the stocks,— It is generally supposed that these were the cippi, or large pieces of wood used among the Romans, which not...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks. Who, having received such a ch...
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...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Thrust them into the inner prison. — Those who have seen anything of the prisons of the Roman empire, as, e.g., the Mamertine dungeon at Rome its...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Welcomed; Attested; Imprisoned Acts 16:14-24 This was an epoch-making moment, but how quietly it is recorded. There was no heralding of the gos...
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 her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers, (20)...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Who having received such a charge ,.... So strict an one from the magistrates, was doubly careful and diligent: thrust them into the inner prison...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks. Ver. 24. Fast in the stocks ] The...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And the multitude rose up against them Excited and inflamed by these accusations; and the magistrates Or the pretors; rent off their clothes Th...
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

The Expulsion of an Evil Spirit; Persecution of Philippi. 16 And it came to pass,...
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

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And when they had laid many stripes on them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely, who, having received such a charge...
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...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Acts 16:9 . And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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The Biblical Illustrator

A certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination. The Pythoness The words, literally, are as in the margin, a spirit of Python, or, as so...
The Biblical Illustrator

And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone. Apostolic duty and vicissitudes I. Christ’s servants will use whatever power th...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Paul and Silas imprisoned:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks. When the evil spirit went out of th...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 22:27 ; 2 Chronicles 16:10 ; Jeremiah 20:2 ; Jeremiah 29:26 ; Jeremiah 37:15 ; Jeremiah 37:16 ; Jeremiah 38:26 ; Job 13:27 ; Job 33:...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Secured their feet in the stocks — These were probably those large pieces of wood, in use among the Romans, which not only loaded the legs of the p...

²⁴ Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.

Related Commentaries of Acts 16:24

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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

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

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Acts 16:24