22And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them.
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But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention.
In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
Are they ministers of Christ?(I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. …
And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-24)Paul and his companions, though they were for some time buried in obscurity at Philippi, yet now begin to be taken notice of. I. A damsel that had a spirit of divination caused them to be taken notice of, by proclaiming them to be the servants of God. Observe, 1. The account that is given of this damsel: She was pythonissa, possessed with such a spirit of divination as that damsel was by whom the…
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