Acts 16:38 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁸And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans.

Acts 16:38 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 22:29
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.
Matthew 21:46
But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.
Matthew 14:5
And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.

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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 consciences…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 38)

38. they feared when they heard they were Romans--their authority being thus imperilled; for they were liable to an action for what they had done.