What does Acts 16:23 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:"
Verse Acts 16:23. _LAID MANY STRIPES UPON THEM_] The Jews never gave more than thirty-nine stripes to any criminal; but the Romans had no law relative to this: they gave as many as they chose; and the...
AND WHEN THEY HAD LAID MANY STRIPES ON THEM - The Jews were by law prohibited from inflicting more than 40 stripes, and usually inflicted but 39, 2 Corinthians 11:24. But there was no such law among t...
CHAPTER 16 _ 1. In Derbe and Lystra again. Timotheus (Acts 16:1)._ 2. The Preaching forbidden in Asia (Acts 16:6). 3. The Vision of the Man from Macedonia (Acts 16:9). 4. The Gospel in Europe (Act...
IMPRISONMENT OF PAUL AND SILAS. THE PRISON BROKEN. The rulers (Acts 16:19) are the heads of police; they are afterwards called _Strategi, which_ answers to the Roman _Prœ tores._ Philippi was a colony...
A SON IN THE FAITH (Acts 16:1-5)...
STRIPES. Greek. _plege._ Four times translated "wound", five times "stripe", and twelve times "plague". CHARGING. Same as "command" in Acts 16:18. JAILOR. Greek. _desmophulax,_ i.e. keeper of the pr...
_cast them into prison_ So that they should have no chance of teaching any longer. They appear (see Acts 16:35) to have intended to keep them one night in prison and then to turn them out of the city....
PREACHING ON THE SABBATH AT PHILIPPI. CONVERSION AND BAPTISM OF LYDIA. A SPIRIT OF DIVINATION CAST OUT BY ST PAUL. ANGER OF THOSE WHO MADE GAIN THEREBY. PAUL AND SILAS ARE SEIZED, BROUGHT BEFORE THE A...
_THE CONVERSION OF THE JAILER IN PHILIPPI ACTS 16:16-40:_ At a place of prayer in Philippi Paul and Silas came across a girl that had a spirit of divination. Her masters made a lot of money from her p...
ΈΠΙΘΈΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΈΠΙΤΊΘΗΜΙ (G2007) класть, ΈΒΑΛΟΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΒΆΛΛΩ (G906) бросать, ΦΥΛΑΚΉ (G5438) место заключения, тюрьма. Человека заключали в тюрьму, пока его не до...
AT PHILLIPPI. Acts 16:12-40 a. A description of Philippi. Acts 16:12. Acts 16:12 and from thence to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the first of the district, a Roman colony: and we were i...
See notes on verse 22...
And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely: AND WHEN THEY HAD LAID MANY STRIPES UPON THEM - the bleeding wounds from which w...
19 This is the first occasion in which the evangel comes into conflict with the religion of the nations and with the spirit powers back of it. Hitherto the Jews and Judaism opposed the evangel. At Lys...
ST. PAUL IN EUROPE 1. Timotheus] was probably of Lystra, not Derbe. His mother Eunice was perhaps a widow, and she, together with his grandmother Lois, educated the lad in the religion of Israel, tho...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 16 TIMOTHY WORKS WITH PAUL AND SILAS, 16:1-5 V1 Paul went to Derbe and then he went to Lystra. A *Christian called Timothy lived there. Timothy...
AND WHEN THEY HAD LAID MANY STRIPES UPON THEM. — The words imply a punishment of more than usual severity, such as would leave their backs lacerated and bleeding. So in 1 Thessalonians 2:2, St. Paul s...
δεσμοφύλακι, Lucian, _Tox._, 30; Jos., _Ant._, ii., 5, 1, LXX ἀρχιδεσμοφύλαξ, Genesis 39:21-23; Genesis 40:3 A, Genesis 41:10 A (_cf._ the word ἀρχισωματοφύλαξ, Deissmann, _Neue Bibelstudien_, p. 93)....
WELCOMED; ATTESTED; IMPRISONED Acts 16:14 This was an epoch-making moment, but how quietly it is recorded. There was no heralding of the gospel which was to transform Europe. The need for it was uns...
Here begins the account of Pads second journey. At Lystra he found Timothy. His action in the circumcision of Timothy is startling in view of the recent decision of the council. Some charge him with i...
Paul and Silas Imprisoned Luke reported that the group went for prayer, possibly daily. A slave girl who was demon possessed followed them crying out, "These men are the servants of the Most High God...
After the demon has evacuated the damsel, she has no more power to tell fortunes and practice divination than any other person. Consequently, her owners, seeing that they can get no more money for her...
And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers, (20) And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These...
We now enter on the missionary journeys, as they are called, of the apostle Paul. The work, under the Spirit, opens to the glory of the Lord. Not merely are Gentiles met in grace and brought into the...
− 23._That he should keep them safe. _Whereas the magistrates command that Paul and Silas should be kept so diligently, it was done to this end, that they might know more of the matter. For they had a...
There is perhaps no example of this more remarkable than that which Paul does with regard to Timothy. He uses circumcision in all liberty to set aside Jewish prejudice. It is very doubtful whether, ac...
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 t...
And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast _them_ into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely: Ver. 23. _Laid many stripes_] These were those marks of the Lord Jesus which the...
_And the multitude rose up against them_ Excited and inflamed by these accusations; _and the magistrates_ Or the pretors; _rent off their clothes_ That is, the clothes of Paul and Silas; for such was...
Paul and Silas imprisoned:...
Coming to Derbe and Lystra, where he and Barnabas had been persecuted before, Paul was favorably impressed with the young man, Timothy, who had evidently been converted through Paul on his first visit...
AND WHEN THEY HAD LAID MANY STRIPES ON THEM, THEY THREW _THEM_ INTO PRISON, COMMANDING THE JAILER TO KEEP THEM SECURELY. 1. Many stripes - The Jews were limited to 40 stripes and usually gave 39 so t...
"And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely" "The Roman custom depended on the whims of the judge; it was. severe ordeal" (Boles...
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 pr...
LAID MANY STRIPES UPON THEM; partly by the lictors or executioners, and partly by the furious rabble. THE JAILER; this jailer's name (of whose conversion we read hereafter) was Stephanas, as may appea...
Acts 16:23 And G5037 laid G2007 (G5631) many G4183 stripes G4127 them G846 threw G906 (G5627) into G1519 prison G5438 commanding G3853 (G5660) jailer G1200 keep G5083 (G5721) them G846 securely G806...
MINISTRY IN PHILIPPI FROM THE HOUSE OF LYDIA (16:12B-40). The arrival in Europe was clearly seen by Luke as very important. He illustrates the successful ministry there by a threefold description of...
Acts 16:23. AND COMMANDED TO BEAT THEM. ACTS 16:23. AND WHEN THEY HAD LAID MANY STRIPES UPON THEM. Literally, ‘to beat them with rods.' The custom was with the Romans to inflict the blows with rods up...
WHEN THEY HAD LAID (επιθεντες). Second aorist (constative) active participle of επιτιθημ, to place upon.MANY STRIPES (πολλας πληγας). The Jewish law was forty stripes save one (2 Corinthians 11:2...
Acts 16:9. _And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us._ Our dreams often follow the leading thoughts of...
CONTENTS: Paul finds Timothy. Paul's Macedonian vision. The first convert in Europe. Demons cast out of a damsel. Paul and Silas beaten. Conversion of the Philippian jailer. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy S...
Acts 16:1. _Then came he to Lystra,_ as in Acts 14:6. In their former labours in that city, Lois a jewess, her daughter Eunice, and Timothy her son, had embraced the faith. Now, they found Timothy gro...
AFTER A SEVERE BEATING. The Law of Moses regulated whipping (Deuteronomy 25:3; 2 Corinthians 11:24). Romans had no such restriction. THE INNER CELL. A damp cell, with no source of light, used for "sol...
_A certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination._ THE PYTHONESS The words, literally, are as in the margin, a spirit of Python, or, as some MSS. give it, a Python spirit. The Python was the s...
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_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 16:19. THE RULERS, ἄρχοντες, were the town magistrates (Luke 12:58). Acts 16:20. The MAGISTRATES, στρατηγοί, were the two chief civic authorities (dunmviri) in a Roman colony...
EXPOSITION ACTS 16:1 _And he came also _for _then came he, _A.V._ _and T.R.; _to Lystra _for _Lystra, _A.V._; Timothy _for _Timotheus, _A.V._; of a Jewess _for _of a certain woman which was a Jewess,...
We remember at the end of our study last week there arose a contention between Paul and Barnabas who had been close companions on the first missionary venture of the church. But because Barnabas was i...
1 Samuel 23:22; 1 Samuel 23:23; 2 Timothy 2:9; Acts 12:18; Acts 12:4; Acts 5:18; Acts 5:23; Acts 8:3; Acts 9:2; Ephesians 3:1;...
Prison. See on ch. verse 21....
They laid many stripes upon them — Either they did not immediately say they were Romans, or in the tumult it was not regarded. Charging the jailer — Perhaps rather to quiet the people than because the...