🌊WEB · Acts 16:23
What does Acts 16:23 mean?
"When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,"
— Acts 16:23 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, “These men, being Jews, are agitating our city,
and advocate customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans.”
The multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates tore their clothes from them, and commanded them to be beaten with rods.
When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,
who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.
But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bonds were loosened.
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