Acts 16:23
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New International Version (©2011)
After they had been severely flogged, they were thrown into prison, and the jailer was commanded to guard them carefully.

New Living Translation (©2007)
They were severely beaten, and then they were thrown into prison. The jailer was ordered to make sure they didn't escape.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And when they had inflicted many blows upon them, they threw them into prison, ordering the jailer to keep them safely.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
When they had struck them with many blows, they threw them into prison, commanding the jailer to guard them securely;

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
After they had inflicted many blows on them, they threw them in jail, ordering the jailer to keep them securely guarded.

International Standard Version (©2012)
After giving them a severe beating, they threw them in jail and ordered the jailer to keep them under tight security.

NET Bible (©2006)
After they had beaten them severely, they threw them into prison and commanded the jailer to guard them securely.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
And when they had scourged them much, they cast them into the prison and commanded the Keeper of the prison to keep them securely.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
After they had hit Paul and Silas many times, they threw them in jail and ordered the jailer to keep them under tight security.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely:

American King James Version
And when they had laid many stripes on them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:

American Standard Version
And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the gaoler to keep them diligently.

Darby Bible Translation
And having laid many stripes upon them they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely;

English Revised Version
And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:

Webster's Bible Translation
And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely.

Weymouth New Testament
and, after severely flogging them, they threw them into jail and bade the jailer keep them safely.

World English Bible
When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,

Young's Literal Translation
many blows also having laid upon them, they cast them to prison, having given charge to the jailor to keep them safely,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

16:16-24 Satan, though the father of lies, will declare the most important truths, when he can thereby serve his purposes. But much mischief is done to the real servants of Christ, by unholy and false preachers of the gospel, who are confounded with them by careless observers. Those who do good by drawing men from sin, may expect to be reviled as troublers of the city. While they teach men to fear God, to believe in Christ, to forsake sin, and to live godly lives, they will be accused of teaching bad customs.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And when they had laid many stripes upon them,.... Even above measure, as in 2 Corinthians 11:35.

They cast them into prison; designing doubtless to inflict some greater punishment upon them, after they had further examined into their affairs:

charging the jailer to keep them safely; suggesting, that he must be answerable for them, should they escape, either through his favour or his negligence; and they might rather give this strict charge, because they perceived that they were uncommon men, possessed of a strange power, which they had exerted in the casting out of the evil spirit, which might come to their knowledge by some means or other; they might look upon them to be a sort of magicians, and therefore were to be narrowly watched, that they did not make use of their art to deliver themselves; however, they judged it necessary to use all the precautions they could, to secure them: some have thought this jailer to be the same with Stephanas, 1 Corinthians 1:16 but this is not certain, nor very probable.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

23, 24. when they had laid many stripes upon them—the bleeding wounds from which they were not washed till it was done by the converted jailer (Ac 16:33).

charged the jailer … who … thrust them into the inner prison—"pestilential cells, damp and cold, from which the light was excluded, and where the chains rusted on the prisoners. One such place may be seen to this day on the slope of the Capitol at Rome" [Howson].

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Paul and Silas in Prison
…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 on 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.

Acts 16:27 The jailer woke up, and when he saw the prison doors open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself because he thought the prisoners had escaped.
Acts 16:36 The jailer told Paul, "The magistrates have ordered that you and Silas be released. Now you can leave. Go in peace."
2 Corinthians 6:5 in beatings, imprisonments and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger;
2 Corinthians 11:23 Are they servants of Christ? (I am out of my mind to talk like this.) I am more. I have worked much harder, been in prison more frequently, been flogged more severely, and been exposed to death again and again.