He brought them up (αναγαγων). Second aorist active participle of αναγω. It looks as if his house was above the prison. The baptis…

He set meat before them. Food. In Greek, He placed a table. The word meat formerly meant food of all kinds.

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He set meat before them, and rejoiced.—Literally, set a table before them. The two sufferers may well have neede…

What must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. And they spake unto him th…

What Paul and Silas gave the Philippian jailer was the same Christcentered Gospel that had been proclaimed since Pentecost: “Believe in the Lord Je…

He rejoices that he believed. The external profession of faith was previously commended in the jailer; now the inward fruit of it is descr…

And when he had brought them into his house
After he and his family had been baptized, either in the pool in the pri…

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