Acts 16:35 When it was daylight, the magistrates sent their officers to the jailer with the order: "Release those men."

◄ Acts 16:35 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
When it was daylight, the magistrates sent their officers to the jailer with the order: "Release those men."

English Standard Version
But when it was day, the magistrates sent the police, saying, “Let those men go.”

New American Standard Bible
Now when day came, the chief magistrates sent their policemen, saying, "Release those men."

King James Bible
And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When daylight came, the chief magistrates sent the police to say, "Release those men!"

International Standard Version
When day came, the magistrates sent guards, who commanded, "Release those men."

American Standard Version
But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, Let those men go.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when the day was come, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go.

Darby Bible Translation
And when it was day, the praetors sent the lictors, saying, Let those men go.

Young's Literal Translation
And day having come, the magistrates sent the rod-bearers, saying, 'Let those men go;'

Cross References

Luke 12:11
And when they bring you to the synagogues, and to magistrates, and powers, take you no thought how or what thing you shall answer, or what you shall say:

Acts 16:34
And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.

Acts 16:36
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 16:38
And the sergeants told these words to the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

16:35-40 Paul, though willing to suffer for the cause of Christ, and without any desire to avenge himself, did not choose to depart under the charge of having deserved wrongful punishment, and therefore required to be dismissed in an honourable manner. It was not a mere point of honour that the apostle stood upon, but justice, and not to himself so much as to his cause. And when proper apology is made, Christians should never express personal anger, nor insist too strictly upon personal amends. The Lord will make them more than conquerors in every conflict; instead of being cast down by their sufferings, they will become comforters of their brethren.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

35, 36. when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, Let those men go—The cause of this change can only be conjectured. When the commotion ceased, reflection would soon convince them of the injustice they had done, even supposing the prisoners had been entitled to no special privileges; and if rumor reached them that the prisoners were somehow under supernatural protection, they might be the more awed into a desire to get rid of them.