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Acts 16:35 KJV
Acts · chapter 16 · verse 35
And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go.Acts 16:35 · King James Version
Acts 16:35 in context
33And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.
34And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.
35And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go.
36And the keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul, The magistrates have sent to let you go: now therefore depart, and go in peace.
37But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- magistratesstratēgosthe commander of an army, in the NT a civic commander, a governor, the name the highest…G4755 →
- serjeantsrhabdouchosone who carries the rodsG4465 →
- sayinglegōto say, to speak, affirm over, maintain, to teach, to exhort, advise, to command, direct…G3004 →
- sentapostellōto order to go to a place appointed, to send away, dismiss, to allow one to depart, that…G649 →
- dayhēmerathe day, used of the natural day, or the interval between sunrise and sunset, as…G2250 →
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In these verses we have, I. Orders sent for the discharge of Paul and Silas out of prison Act 16:35, Act 16:36. 1. The magistrates that had so basely abused them the day before gave the orders;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 35-40