Acts 16:29

Acts 24:25; Acts 9:5; Acts 9:6; Daniel 6:26; Isaiah 60:14; Isaiah 66:2; Isaiah 66:5; Jeremiah 10:10; Jeremiah 5:22; Psalms 119:120; Psalms 99:1; Revelation 3:9

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Then he called for a light - Greek: lights, in the plural. Probably several torches were brought by his attendants. And came trembling - Alar...
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

called for . asked for. Greek. aiteo. App-134. light . Greek. phos. App-130. sprang in . Greek. eispedao. Only here and Acts 14:14 cam...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

− 29. Being astonished, he fell down. This keeper was no less brought under with fear to show obedience to God than with the miracle prepare...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1787 THE CONVERSION OF THE JAILOR Acts 16:29-31 . Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, He called for a light - That he might see how thi...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Then he called for a light,— As φωτα, lights, is plural, it seems to imply, that, on this alarm, several of his attendants came with torches, and...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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

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 tha...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 12 ST. PAUL IN MACEDONIA. Acts 16:29-31 ; Acts 17:1-2 ; Acts 17:10 TROAS was at this time the termination of St. Paul's Asiatic trav...
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 at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. (26) And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so th...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then he called for a light ,.... Or "lights"; he ordered his servants to bring in some candles; the Syriac version renders it, "he lighted a light f...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, Ver. 29. And sprang in ] As John the Evangeli...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Then he , &c. The jailer, greatly terrified by the earthquake, and astonished at Paul's discovering his purpose to kill himself; called for a l...
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 in Prison; Conversion of the Philippian Jailer. 25 And at midnight...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

He called for a light, or lights, which prisons are not usually without. Came trembling: what a sudden and great change can God make! he comes tr...
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

Arrest and Imprisonment Lead To Additions To The Church In Philippi (16:19-34). But the problem was that what he had done would hit at men's pocke...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And he called for lights and sprang in, and, trembling for fear, fell down before Paul and Silas, and brought them out and said, “Sirs (lords), what...
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...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Acts 16:29-31 Note: I. What a "manifold wisdom" is the wisdom of God! how infinitely various are His ways in the work of the conversion of souls...
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

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

Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling. The Philippian jailer I. The state of his mind before conversion. 1. He was a...
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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas,
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The conversion of the jailer:

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

Related Commentaries of Acts 16:29

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Acts 16:29