And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes. And immediately he and all his family were baptized.
1. Same hour of the night - I have baptized people at 7 in the morning, at midnight, at all hours of the day and night.
2. Salvation is at stake. Why wait?
3. This family was taught in the middle of the night and were baptized immediately.
Verse 33. _WASHED THEIR STRIPES_] Ελουσεν απο των πληγων, _He_ _washed from the stripes_: i.e. he washed the _blood from_ the _wounds;_ and this would not require putting them into a _pool_, or _bath_...
AND HE TOOK THEM - To a convenient place for washing. It is evident from this that, though the apostles had the gift of miracles, they did not exercise it in regard to their own sufferings or to heal...
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 ...
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...
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...
A SON IN THE FAITH (Acts 16:1-5)...
THE SAME. in (Greek. _en._ App-104.) the same. WASHED. bathed them. Greek. _louo._ App-136. THEIR STRIPES. from (Greek. _apo._ App-104.) their wounds. STRAIGHTWAY. Greek. _parachrema._ Same as imme...
_the same hour of the night_ It was midnight, see Acts 16:25. But a new day, a birthday, had already begun for him and it must be kept as a feast, and he does his utmost to shew his rejoicing by care...
ἘΝ ἘΚΕΊΝΗΙ ΤΗ͂Ι ὭΡΑΙ ΤΗ͂Σ ΝΥΚΤΌΣ, _in that same hour of the night_. It was midnight, see Acts 16:25. But a new day, a birthday, had already begun for him and it must be kept as a feast. So he does his...
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...
ΠΑΡΑΛΑΒΏΝ _aor. act. part. от_ ΠΑΡΑΛΑΜΒΆΝΩ (G3880) брать с собой, ΈΛΟΥΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΛΟΎΩ (G3068) мыть. Об использовании этого слова с _предл. см._ BS, 227; NDIEC, 3:20....
AND HE TOOK THEM THE SAME HOUR, &C.— It appears from this circumstance of the gaoler's washing their stripes, that the apostles had not a power of working miraculous cures whenever they pleased, eithe...
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 in...
33, 34. The preaching, as would be expected under circumstances so favorable, had the desired effect both upon the jailer and his household. (33) "_And he took them the same hour of the night, and was...
And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway. AND HE TOOK THEM, [ anagagoon (G321)]; the word implies removal to another pla...
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...
Journey into Europe, Philippi. 6. RV 'And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden of the Holy Ghost to speak the word in Asia.' At Lystra (Acts 16:6) they received a...
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...
HE... WASHED THEIR STRIPES; AND WAS BAPTIZED... — The two-fold washings, that which testified of the repentance of the gaoler and his kindly reverence for his prisoners, and that which they administer...
ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ὥρᾳ τῆς νυκτὸς, _cf._ Acts 16:18, “at that hour of the night”; the jailor will not delay for a moment his first Christian duty, Matthew 25:36. ἔλουσεν ἀπὸ τῶν πληγῶν : “and washed them of...
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...
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...
The Conversion of the Jailor At midnight, while the other prisoners listened to Paul and Silas singing and praying, a great earthquake shook open all the prison doors and released all those bound in...
(18) And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed [their] stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway. (18) God with the very same hand wounds and heals when it pleases him....
_Was baptized, being first told what he was to believe, and do. (Witham) --- Hence Catholics draw a very plausible argument for the baptism of infants, as it is very probable there were some infants i...
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...
And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. (26) And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and i...
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...
− 33._He was baptized, and all his household. _Luke doth again commend the godly zeal of the keeper, that he did consecrate all his whole house to the Lord; wherein doth also appear the grace of God,...
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 HE TOOK THEM THE SAME HOUR OF THE NIGHT,.... After they had done preaching to him, and to his family: AND WASHED THEIR STRIPES; which were very many and heavy, and whereby they were covered with...
And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed _their_ stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway. Ver. 33. _He and all his straightway_] God's work is of great importance, and m...
_And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ_ Whom it is our office to preach as the great and only Saviour; and confide wholly in him for salvation; loving, obeying, and living to his glory. As P...
The conversion of the jailer:...
AND HE TOOK THEM THE SAME HOUR OF THE NIGHT, AND WASHED THEIR STRIPES; AND WAS BAPTIZED, HE AND ALL HIS, STRAIGHTWAY....
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 he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, immediately" "Same hour of the night" The jailer found. place where he could quickly cleanse t...
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...
THE SAME HOUR OF THE NIGHT; he did not delay to show forth the fruits of his faith, and real conversion. AND WASHED THEIR STRIPES; which his stripes had made, using such means as might assuage their p...
33, 34. The preaching, as would be expected under circumstances so favorable, had the desired effect both upon the jailer and his household. (33) "_ And he took them the same hour of the night, and wa...
Acts 16:33 And G2532 took G3880 (G5631) them G846 G1722 same G1565 hour G5610 night G3571 washed...
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 P...
ARREST AND IMPRISONMENT LEAD TO ADDITIONS TO THE CHURCH IN PHILIPPI (16:19-34). But the problem was that what he had done would hit at men's pockets. They did not care about the girl herself, they had...
‘And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was baptised, he and all his, immediately.' Meanwhile the jailer had taken them immediately from the prison and washed their...
Acts 16:33. AND HE TOOK THEM THE SAME HOUR OF THE NIGHT, AND WASHED THEIR STRIPES; AND WAS BAPTIZED, HE AND ALL HIS, STRAIGHTWAY. Most likely in that rectangular reservoir or basin called the ‘impluvi...
WASHED THEIR STRIPES (ελουσεν απο των πληγων). Deissmann (_Bible Studies_, p. 227) cites an inscription of Pergamum with this very construction of απο and the ablative, to wash off, though it is an...
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...
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...
_And they spake unto him the Word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house._ HOUSEHOLD SALVATION It sometimes happens that a good man has to go alone to heaven: God’s election has separated him...
_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...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 16:33 BAPTIZED... HE AND ALL HIS FAMILY. The jailer seems to have gathered his whole household to listen to Paul’s message. Christians disagree as to whether the baptism of household...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 16:11 Philippi was the first Macedonian city in which Paul witnessed. ⇐ ⇔...
_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 Corinthians 1:16; Acts 16:15; Acts 16:23; Galatians 5:13; Galat
He took [π α ρ α λ α β ω ν]. Strictly, "took them along with [π α ρ α] him :" to some other part of the prison. Washed their stripes [ε λ ο υ σ ε ν α π ο τ ω ν π λ η γ ω ν]. Properly, "washed them fro...
He washed their stripes — It should not be forgot, that the apostles had not the power of working miraculous cures when they pleased, either on themselves, or their dearest friends. Nor was it expedie...
Behold how sudden and strange. change was wrought in this gaoler. Before his conversion he was cruel, barbarous, and hard-hearted; now he is meek, merciful, and compassionate. He that before had beate...