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Acts 16:23 KJV
Acts · chapter 16 · verse 23
And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:Acts 16:23 · King James Version
Acts 16:23 in context
21And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans.
22And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them.
23And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:
24Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
25And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- chargingparangellōto transmit a message along from one to another, to declare, announce, to command, order…G3853 →
- stripesplēgēa blow, stripe, a wound, a public calamity, heavy affliction, plagueG4127 →
- prisonphylakēguard, watch, a watching, keeping watch, to keep watch, persons keeping watch, a guard…G5438 →
- jailordesmophylaxa keeper of a prison, a jailorG1200 →
- laidepitithēmiin the active voice, to put or lay upon, to add to, in the middle voice, to have put on…G2007 →
- manypolysmany, much, largeG4183 →
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Paul and his companions, though they were for some time buried in obscurity at Philippi, yet now begin to be taken notice of. I. A damsel that had a spirit of divination caused them to be taken notice of, by proclaiming them to be the servants of God. Observe, 1.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 16-24