Being roused out of sleep (εξυπνος γενομενος). Becoming εξυπνος (rare word, only here in N.T., in LXX and Josephus). An earthquake…

Would have killed himself. This was all done in the midst of agitation and alarm. He supposed that the prisoners had fled. He presumed tha…

He drew out his sword, and would have killed himself.—We have seen in Acts 12:19 what was to be expected by a jailer who,…

For the law was that, if a jailer lost a prisoner, he was to suffer whatever penalty the prisoner would have suffered. He therefore knew that, in a…

One would expect that after such brutal treatment, Paul and Silas would be bemoaning their plight. Certainly they were suffering pain and shock fro…

When the keeper of the prison was awakened. He would have killed himself to prevent punishment, for it would have been a foolish answer to…

And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep
Not so much by the loud voices of Paul and Silas, as by the un…

The consolations of God to His suffering servants are neither few nor small. How much happier are true Christians than their prosperous enemies! As…