38And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans.
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Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.
But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.
And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 35-40)In these verses we have, I. Orders sent for the discharge of Paul and Silas out of prison Acts 16:35 , 36 . 1. The magistrates that had so basely abused them the day before gave the orders; and their doing it so early, as soon as it was day , intimates that either they were sensible the terrific earthquake they felt at midnight was intended to plead the cause of their prisoners, or their conscienc…
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