Now therefore (νυν ουν). Note both particles (time and inference). It was a simple matter to the jailor and he was full of glee ov…

Go in peace.—The few hours which the jailer had spent with his new teacher had probably taught him to use the phrase in the fullne…

In the morning the magistrates sent the officers to the prison with an order to release the two vagabond Jews. They had probably only wanted to tea…

And the keeper of the prison told this, saying to Paul ,
&c.] The Ethiopic version adds, "and to Silas"; this was th…

Paul, though willing to suffer for the cause of Christ, and without any desire to avenge himself, did not choose to depart under the charge of havi…