42And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
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This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea, and there abode.
A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? …
Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-44)We have here the issue of the distress of Paul and his fellow-travellers; they escaped with their lives and that was all, and that was for Paul’s sake. We are here told (Acts 27:37) what number there were on board—mariners, merchants, soldiers, prisoners, and other passengers, in all two hundred and seventy-six souls; this is taken notice of to make us the more concerned for them in reading the st…
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