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He took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.
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Faith's First Fruit is Compassion
Multiple commentators emphasize the jailer's immediate transformation. Just hours after inflicting harm, his first act of faith was to show compassion by washing the wounds of Paul and Silas. Scholars like Barnes and Calvin see this as a powerful example of how genuine conversion instantly produces tangible fruits of love and kindness, changing a person's character from the inside out.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And he took them. To a convenient place for washing. It is evident from this, that though the apostles had the gift of miracles, they did …
Washed their stripes (ελουσεν απο των πληγων). Deissmann (Bible Studies, p. 227) cites an inscription of Pergamum with this…
19th Century
Anglican
He . . . washed their stripes; and was baptized . . .—The two-fold washings—the one that testified to the repentance of t…
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Baptist
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…
16th Century
Protestant
He was baptized, and all his household. Luke again commends the godly zeal of the keeper, in that he consecrated his entire household to t…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And he took them the same hour of the night After they had done preaching to him, and to his family:
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The consolations of God to His suffering servants are neither few nor small. How much happier are true Christians than their prosperous enemies! As…
