15And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Who shall tell thee words, whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved.
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.
But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them.
And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-15)In these verses we have, I. Paul’s travels up and down to do good. 1. He and Silas his colleague went throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, where, it should seem, the gospel was already planted, but whether by Paul’s hand or no is not mentioned; it is likely it was, for in his epistle to the Galatians he speaks of his preaching the gospel to them at the first , and how very acceptable he w…
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