Laid many stripes upon them; partly by the lictors or executioners, and partly by the furious rabble. The jailer; this jailer’s name (of whose conversion we read hereafter) was Stephanas, as may appear if you compare 1 Corinthians 1:16 with what follows by St. Luke in this story. Of him also we read, 1 Corinthians 16:15,1 Corinthians 16:17. read more
Thus they dealt with Joseph, Genesis 39:20, compared with Psalms 105:18, and with Jeremiah, and with John Baptist. Sanctorum sors est, et non moleste ferenda. read more
No time or place where prayer is not acceptable unto God, and prevalent with him; nay, it sounds the sweeter when on the waters of affliction a good man pours it forth unto God. Sang praises unto God, that they were counted worthy to suffer for Christ: and being all things are overruled for the good, and conduce to the advantage, of them that love God, Romans 8:28, they owe unto God thanks for all things through Jesus Christ, which is also required of them, Ephesians 5:20. read more
Suddenly; how soon is prayer answered, when the fulness of time is come! So nigh is God unto all that call upon him, Psalms 34:17; Psalms 145:18. There was a great earthquake; an earthquake did usually precede some wonderful matter, as Matthew 28:2. And although God could have delivered these his servants without an earthquake, yet, to show the more that their deliverance was his work, and it was no artifice or force of their own, he manifested his power after this manner. Every one’s bands... read more
Awaking out of his sleep, by the earthquake, which being upon an extraordinary occasion, could not fail to do all that God intended by it. Would have killed himself, for fear of suffering a more cruel death; for all jailers, who let any prisoner escape, were to suffer the same punishment that the prisoners were thought to have deserved; and self-murder was very ordinary amongst both the Romans and Grecians. But whatsoever their philosophers have said of it, it must needs have been a very great... read more
The other prisoners were smitten with amazement; neither did they mind (or it might have been kept from them) that the doors were opened, and their chains loosed: but as for the apostles, the same God who wrought this deliverance for them, might inform them of the intent of it; that by this means the conversion of the jailer and his family was intended; and that their doctrine might be magnified, which had been so much vilified. read more
He called for a light, or lights, which prisons are not usually without. Came trembling: what a sudden and great change can God make! he comes trembling to those feet which he had put into the stocks so lately. Fell down before Paul and Silas; by which he would give a civil respect unto them, it being an ordinary rite amongst the Eastern nations (as endless examples in Scripture witness) to pay their respects; and from them it spread itself into Greece: which respect Paul and Silas do not... read more
Brought them out, into his own apartment in the prison, or to some more open and free place. Sirs; a term of respect given by the Romans and Grecians to such whom they honoured, as now the jailer did these seemingly most contemptible men. What must I do to be saved? He might have some knowledge of a future state, which he here inquires after: 1. By the very light of nature.2. By tradition.3. By the doctrine of the philosophers.4. By his frequenting with Jews and proselytes.Men under fears, and... read more
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ; this is the sum of the gospel. Christ, apprehended by faith, serves for wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, as 1 Corinthians 1:30. But then this precious faith must be such as works by love, as purifies the heart, Acts 15:9, as overcometh the world, 1 John 5:4, as quenches the fiery darts of the devil, Ephesians 6:16, and is deservedly called, a most holy faith, Jude 1:20. Thou shalt be saved, and thy house; thou shalt by this means come to... read more
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Acts 16:22
The multitude; generality and unanimity alone cannot authorize opinions or practices. Rent off their clothes; Paul’s and Silas’s clothes, to disgrace them the more, or in order unto their being scourged; though some think that the magistrates rent their own clolhes, in detestation of the pretended blasphemy which was laid to Paul’s charge, as the high priest did, Mark 14:63. read more