As soon as it was day (Γενομενης ημερας). Genitive absolute, day having come.

No small stir (ταραχος ουκ ο…

No small stir. Amazement that he had escaped, and apprehension of the consequences. The punishment which they had reason to expect for hav…

(18–19a) In Roman law, a guard who allowed his prisoner to escape was subject to the same penalty the escaped prisoner would have suffered. No wond…

When it was day. Luke now returns to Herod and the soldiers, and he says that there was no small disturbance among them. For they could no…

Now as soon as it was day
When it was morning; as soon as there was any light in the prison, by which the guards cou…

God's providence leaves room for the use of our prudence, though he has undertaken to perform and perfect what he has begun. These Christians conti…