ACTS 16:25 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.”
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them — despite injury and imprisonment, Paul and Silas pray (proseuchomai) and sing hymns (hymnō), suggesting faith transcends circumstance. The other prisoners' listening (akouo) indicates the apostles' witness continues even in confinement.
Church Fathers on Acts 16:25
What could equal these souls? These men had been scourged, had received many stripes, they had been misused, were in peril of their lives, were thrust into the inner prison, and set fast in the stocks: and for all this they did not suffer themselves to sleep, but kept vigil all the night. Do you mark what a blessing tribulation is? But we, in our soft beds, with none to be afraid of, pass the whole night in sleep. But belike this is why they kept vigil, because they were in…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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