Acts 16:34
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New International Version
The jailer brought them into his house and set a meal before them; he was filled with joy because he had come to believe in God--he and his whole household.


English Standard Version
Then he brought them up into his house and set food before them. And he rejoiced along with his entire household that he had believed in God.


New American Standard Bible
And he brought them into his house and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, having believed in God with his whole household.


King James Bible
And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.


Holman Christian Standard Bible
He brought them into his house, set a meal before them, and rejoiced because he had believed God with his entire household.


International Standard Version
He brought Paul and Silas upstairs into his house and set food before them. He was thrilled, as was his household, to believe in God.


American Standard Version
And he brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his house, having believed in God.


Douay-Rheims Bible
And when he had brought them into his own house, he laid the table for them, and rejoiced with all his house, believing God.


Darby Bible Translation
And having brought them into his house he laid the table for them, and rejoiced with all his house, having believed in God.


Young's Literal Translation
having brought them also into his house, he set food before them, and was glad with all the household, he having believed in God.


Commentaries
16:25-34 The consolations of God to his suffering servants are neither few nor small. How much more happy are true Christians than their prosperous enemies! As in the dark, so out of the depths, we may cry unto God. No place, no time is amiss for prayer, if the heart be lifted up to God. No trouble, however grievous, should hinder us from praise. Christianity proves itself to be of God, in that it obliges us to be just to our own lives. Paul cried aloud to make the jailer hear, and to make him heed, saying, Do thyself no harm. All the cautions of the word of God against sin, and all appearances of it, and approaches to it, have this tendency. Man, woman, do not ruin thyself; hurt not thyself, and then none else can hurt thee; do not sin, for nothing but that can hurt thee. Even as to the body, we are cautioned against the sins which do harm to that. Converting grace changes people's language of and to good people and good ministers. How serious the jailer's inquiry! His salvation becomes his great concern; that lies nearest his heart, which before was furthest from his thoughts. It is his own precious soul that he is concerned about. Those who are thoroughly convinced of sin, and truly concerned about their salvation, will give themselves up to Christ. Here is the sum of the whole gospel, the covenant of grace in a few words; Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. The Lord so blessed the word, that the jailer was at once softened and humbled. He treated them with kindness and compassion, and, professing faith in Christ, was baptized in that name, with his family. The Spirit of grace worked such a strong faith in them, as did away further doubt; and Paul and Silas knew by the Spirit, that a work of God was wrought in them. When sinners are thus converted, they will love and honour those whom they before despised and hated, and will seek to lessen the suffering they before desired to increase. When the fruits of faith begin to appear, terrors will be followed by confidence and joy in God.

34. And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them and rejoiced, believing—that is, as the expression implies, "rejoiced because he had believed."

in God—as a converted heathen, for the faith of a Jew would not be so expressed [Alford].

with all his house—the wondrous change on himself and the whole house filling his soul with joy. "This is the second house which, in the Roman city of Philippi, has been consecrated by faith in Jesus, and of which the inmates, by hospitable entertainment of the Gospel witnesses, have been sanctified to a new beginning of domestic life, pleasing and acceptable to God. The first result came to pass in consequence simply of the preaching of the Gospel; the second was the fruit of a testimony sealed and ennobled by suffering" [Baumgarten].

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