ACTS 16:36 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And the keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul, The magistrates have sent to let you go: now therefore depart, and go in peace.”
The officers reported this to the magistrates, and when they heard that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens, they were alarmed — the magistrates' alarm (phobeō, to fear) at the revelation of Roman citizenship indicates the severity of their legal violation: flogging citizens without trial could result in serious consequences for the magistrates themselves.
Church Fathers on Acts 16:36
And the keeper of the prison told these words to Paul, saying, the magistrates have sent to let you go: now therefore depart, and go in peace. But Paul said to them, they have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust as out privily? Nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out. And the sergeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans. And they came and…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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