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Acts 16:36 KJV
Acts · chapter 16 · verse 36
And 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.Acts 16:36 · King James Version
Acts 16:36 in context
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.
38And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- magistratesstratēgosthe commander of an army, in the NT a civic commander, a governor, the name the highest…G4755 →
- prisondesmophylaxa keeper of a prison, a jailorG1200 →
- sayinglogosof speech, a word, uttered by a living voice, embodies a conception or idea, what someone…G3056 →
- departexerchomaito go or come forth of, with mention of the place out of which one goes, or the point…G1831 →
- toldapangellōto bring tidings , bring word, report, to proclaim, to make known openly, declareG518 →
- PaulpaulosPaul or Paulus = " small or little" , Paul was the most famous of the apostles…G3972 →
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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