Acts 16:31

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Acts 16:25-32

Chapter 57 Prayer Almighty God, we are still in the land of the living because of thy great mercy and most tender lovingkindness towards us. There is no death in God. Thou wouldst that we should be like thee altogether, living in thine own endless Evermore. Breathe into our souls the breath of life. Keep us near thee in Christ thy Son, our Saviour, and let death have no more dominion over us. We know that our flesh is delivered up to the jailer; we cannot release the body from his hard grip;... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Acts 16:25-34

And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. (26) And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed. (27) And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled. (28) But Paul cried with a loud... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Acts 16:25-34

25-34 The consolations of God to his suffering servants are neither few nor small. How much more happy are true Christians than their prosperous enemies! As in the dark, so out of the depths, we may cry unto God. No place, no time is amiss for prayer, if the heart be lifted up to God. No trouble, however grievous, should hinder us from praise. Christianity proves itself to be of God, in that it obliges us to be just to our own lives. Paul cried aloud to make the jailer hear, and to make him... read more

Frank Binford Hole

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - Acts 16:1-99

Acts 16 THIS CHAPTER OPENS with Paul back at Derbe and Lystra, back, that is, to the scenes where he had suffered the stoning. In those very places he now finds Timothy, who was to become in his latter years such a comfort to him. A happy illustration of how God’s government acts in favour of the godly. We are apt to think of it only as acting against the ungodly. Out of the place of Paul’s sufferings sprang one of his greatest comforts. Now as Timothy’s father was a Greek he had not been... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Acts 16:29-34

The conversion of the jailer: v. 29. Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, v. 30. and brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? v. 31. And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved and thy house. v. 32. And they spake unto him the Word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house. v. 33. And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized,... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Acts 16:9-40

C.—DIVINE INTIMATIONS CONDUCT THE APOSTLE TO EUROPE. SUCCESSFUL COMMENCEMENT; HOSTILITIES AND IMPRISONMENT; BUT ALSO DIVINE DELIVERANCE AT PHILIPPIActs 16:9-409And a vision appeared to Paul in [during, διὰ] the night: There stood a man of Macedonia [a Macedonian man], and prayed [besought] him, saying, Come [Cross] over into [to] Macedonia, and help us. 10And [But] after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured [sought] to go [to journey] into [to] Macedonia, assuredly gathering [as... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Acts 16:30-31

Acts THE RIOT AT PHILIPPI THE GREAT QUESTION AND THE PLAIN ANSWER Act_16:30 - Act_16:31 . The keeper of a Macedonian jail was not likely to be a very nervous or susceptible person. And so the extraordinary state of agitation and panic into which this rough jailer was cast needs some kind of explanation. There had been, as you will all remember, an earthquake of a strange kind, for it not only opened the prison doors, but shook the prisoner’s chains off. The doors being opened, there was on... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Acts 16:25-40

Salvation in the Jail Acts 16:25-40 Some, as we have seen, are converted by the gentle opening of the heart; others amid the convulsions of the storm. The first knowledge of salvation may have reached the heart of the jailer through the saving of the possessed girl, Acts 16:17 . If only the heart is right with Christ, it can sing in the darkest night; and the impression of those holy songs must have wrought still further upon the conscience of this rough Roman official, who had treated his... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Acts 16:1-40

Here begins the account of Pads second journey. At Lystra he found Timothy. His action in the circumcision of Timothy is startling in view of the recent decision of the council. Some charge him with inconsistency, and yet perhaps it was a proof of a larger and deeper consistency. The beginning of this journey is noted for a remarkable experience. The Spirit compelled Paul to a course against his own inclination. At the end of that journey the man of Macedonia appeared to him, and the movement... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Acts 16:31

PAUL’S ADVICE TO THE JAILER‘Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt he saved, and thy house.’ Acts 16:31 Some assert that this heathen jailer could know nothing about salvation through Jesus Christ, and that therefore the question he uttered must have referred to bodily safety. But he had just been saved from suicide by the assurance of St. Paul that the prisoners had not escaped. The man had perhaps heard the Apostle preach, or had joined unseen the little company at the place of... read more

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