Acts 16:33 - Exposition

Immediately for straightway, A.V. Washed their stripes . Mark the jailor's faith working by love. He and all his . The phrase seems purposely adapted to include family, slaves, and all under his roof. If the conversion of the jailor and his house was sudden, the circumstances which led to it were of unusual power—the earthquake, the loosing of the prisoners' bands, the midnight hour, the words of grace and love and lifo from the apostle's mouth.