Acts 16:38 The officers reported this to the magistrates, and when they heard that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens, they were alarmed.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
The officers reported this to the magistrates, and when they heard that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens, they were alarmed.

English Standard Version
The police reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Roman citizens.

New American Standard Bible
The policemen reported these words to the chief magistrates. They were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,

King James Bible
And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then the police reported these words to the magistrates. They were afraid when they heard that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens.

International Standard Version
The guards reported these words to the magistrates, and they became afraid when they heard that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens.

American Standard Version
And the sergeants reported these words unto the magistrates: and they feared when they heard that they were Romans;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And let us out themselves. And the serjeants told these words to the magistrates. And they were afraid, hearing that they were Romans.

Darby Bible Translation
And the lictors reported these words to the praetors. And they were afraid when they heard they were Romans.

Young's Literal Translation
And the rod-bearers told to the magistrates these sayings, and they were afraid, having heard that they are Romans,

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 16:35
And when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, Let those men go.

Acts 22:29
Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.

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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

38. they feared when they heard they were Romans—their authority being thus imperilled; for they were liable to an action for what they had done.