Acts 22:29; Matthew 14:5; Matthew 21:46
They feared when they heard ... - They were apprehensive of punishment for having imprisoned them in violation of the laws of the empire. To puni...
(21) And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans. (21) The wicked are not moved...
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...
'words . Greek. rhema. See note on Mark 9:32 . feared . were alarmed. Compare Acts 22:29 . They had violated the Roman law by which no Roman c...
And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans. They feared when they heard - they w...
And the serjeants, &c.— St. Paul seems, in his own conduct here, to have had a regard to the honour and interests of Christianity in this place...
And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans. And the serjeants told these...
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...
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...
They feared, when they heard that they were Romans. — It is clear that the strategi did not consider their ignorance of St. Paul’s citizenship a...
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...
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...
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...
And the sergeants told these words unto the magistrates ,.... They returned to them, and acquainted them with what the prisoners said: and they fe...
And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans. Ver. 38. And they feared when th...
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...
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...
Paul and Silas Released. 35 And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjean...
For the Romans (under whom these magistrates were) made it by their laws to be treason thus to abuse any of their citizens. God overruled their fear...
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...
‘And the lictors reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans, and they came and besought them...
CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 16:19 . The rulers, ἄρχοντες, were the town magistrates ( Luke 12:58 ). Acts 16:20 . The magistrates , στρατηγοί, were...
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...
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...
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 release of the prisoners:
And the sergeants told these words unto the magistrates; and they feared when they heard that they were Romans.
38 And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans.