Acts 16:39

And they came and besought them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the city.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And they came and besought them - A most humiliating act for Roman magistrates, but in this case it was unavoidable. The apostles had them comple...
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

brought . Same word as "fetch" ( Acts 16:37 ). desired . were praying. Greek. erotao. App-134.
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And besought them— The word Παρεκαλεσαν, here rendered besought, is in the very next verse, as well as in many other places, rendered comforted;...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And they came and besought them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the city. And they came (in person, not now sending...
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

Desired them to depart ] representing that in the excited state of the city it was impossible to protect them.
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 they came ,.... To the prison in person, as Paul had insisted on they should: and besought them ; that they would put up the injury that had b...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And they came and besought them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the city. Ver. 39. And they came and besought them ]...
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

Two things the magistrates had to desire of them: 1. That they would excuse the wrong done unto them, which they feared lest the Romans might reven...
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

‘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...
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...
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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The release of the prisoners:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And they came and besought them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the city.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Daniel 6:16 ; Daniel 6:23 ; Exodus 11:8 ; Isaiah 45:14 ; Isaiah 49:23 ; Isaiah 60:14 ; Micah 7:10 ; Micah 7:9 ; Mark 5:17 ; Matthew 8:34 ;...

³⁹ And they came and besought them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the city.

Related Commentaries of Acts 16:39

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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

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

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 16:39