KJV King James Version
And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go.
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Acts 16:35
And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
When daylight came, the magistrates sent their officers with the order: “Release those men.”
WEB World English Bible
But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, “Let those men go.”
ASV American Standard Version
But when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And day having come, the magistrates sent the rod-bearers, saying, ‘Let those men go;’
Surrounding context — Acts 16
32 And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house.
33 And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed [their] stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.
34 And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.
35 And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go.
36 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.
37 But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast [us] into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.
38 And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ἩμέραςG2250 · hēmeradayδὲG1161 · dethenγενομένηςG1096 · ginomaito beἀπέστειλανG649 · apostellōto sendοἱG3588 · hothe/this/whoστρατηγοὶG4755 · stratēgosofficer/magistrateτοὺςG3588 · hothe/this/whoῥαβδούχουςG4465 · rhabdouchospoliceλέγοντες·G3004 · legōto sayἀπόλυσονG630 · apoluōto release: releaseτοὺςG3588 · hothe/this/whoἀνθρώπουςG444 · anthrōposa humanἐκείνους.G1565 · ekeinosthat
Cross-references
Acts 5:40And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten [them], they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.Jeremiah 5:22Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand [for] the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?Psalm 76:10Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.Acts 4:21So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all [men] glorified God for that which was done.
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