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Acts 16:30

ACTS—NOTE ON Acts 16:30 what must I do to be saved? The jailer’s question most likely refers to being saved from God’s judgment, which he would have heard about through listening to his prisoners’ prayers and songs.

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  • A Textual Commentary On The Greek New Testament by Bruce M. Metzger

    ACTS 16:30 e;xw The Western text adds the detail that the jailer “secured the rest” of the prisoners before he addressed Paul and Silas (after e;xw D syrh with * read tou.j loipou.j avsfalisa,menoj)....

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND BROUGHT THEM OUT - From the prison. SIRS - Greek: κύριοι kurioi, lords - an address of respect; a title usually given to masters or owners of slaves. WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED? - Never was a mo...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God and the prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was a great earthquake so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. I...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    A SON IN THE FAITH (Acts 16:1-5)...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    OUT. outside. Greek. _exo._ SIRS. Greek. _kurios._ Compare App-98. Same as "masters" (Acts 16:16). TO BE. in order that (Greek. _hina)_. may be. This man was under deep conviction of sin, "shaken to...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _and brought them out_ There could be no fear that they would flee now who had remained when the open doors made flight easy. _and said. Sirs_ The Greek word Κύριοι implies an acknowledgment of great...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    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...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΚΑῚ ΠΡΟΑΓΑΓῺΝ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΎΣ, _and having brought them out_. For there could be no fear that they would flee now who had remained when the open doors made escape easy. ΚΎΡΙΟΙ, _Sirs_, literally, ‘Lords.’ He...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _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...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΠΡΟΑΓΑΓΏΝ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΠΡΟΆΓΩ (G4254) вести вперед, выводить, ΈΦ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΦΗΜΊ (G5346) говорить, ΚΎΡΙΟΙ _voc. pl._ от ΚΎΡΙΟΣ (G2962) господин. Вежливое обращение, ΔΕΙ (G1...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Combined Bible Commentary

    See notes on verse 29...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    SIRS, WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED? — The use of “Sirs” differs from that of Acts 7:26 in having a Greek word, expressive of respect (that used in John 20:15), corresponding to it. We ask what the gaole...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    Κύριοι, in respect, _cf._ John 20:15. ἵνα σωθῶ; the word of the maiden σωτηρία and the occurrence of the night may well have prompted the question. The context, Acts 16:31, seems to indicate the highe...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    SALVATION IN THE JAIL Acts 16:25 Some, as we have seen, are converted by the gentle opening of the heart; others amid the convulsions of the storm. The first knowledge of salvation may have reached t...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

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  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    The awakened and panic-stricken jailer, knowing that cruel Roman law will require his life as substitute for the fugitive prisoner, in the absence of Bible light on suicide, and with the noble example...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Manly Luscombe Commentary on New Testament

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  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

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  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

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  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

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  • Sermon Bible Commentary

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Bible Study New Testament

    AND FELL TREMBLING. He is convinced they are under divine protection! WHAT MUST I DO? Paul's answer to this question shows the jailer knew they preached a new religion. BELIEVE IN THE LORD JESUS. This...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _What must I do to be saved?_ …Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. THE GREAT QUESTION AND THE PLAIN ANSWER The keeper of a Macedonian gaol was not likely to be a very nervous o...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling._ THE PHILIPPIAN JAILER I. The state of his mind before conversion. 1. He was a careless sinner. This appears not so much from his offi...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Acts 14:15; Acts 16:17; Acts 16:24; Acts 2:37; Acts 22:10;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Sirs — He did not style them so the day before. What must I do to be saved? — From the guilt I feel and the vengeance I fear? Undoubtedly God then set his sins in array before him, and convinced him i...

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