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He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his house, having believed in God.
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Joy is the Fruit of Faith
Commentators unanimously highlight the jailer's immediate and profound joy. John Calvin explains this isn't mere happiness but a deep, stable joy that comes only from faith—the certainty of salvation and peace with God. This joy, which replaced the jailer's terror, is described as a direct fruit of believing in the gospel and experiencing God's mercy.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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 brought them up (αναγαγων). Second aorist active participle of αναγω. It looks as if his house was above the prison. The baptis…
19th Century
Anglican
He set meat before them, and rejoiced.—Literally, set a table before them. The two sufferers may well have neede…
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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 rejoices that he believed. The external profession of faith was previously commended in the jailer; now the inward fruit of it is descr…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
