Handelingen 16:23

23 En als zij hun vele slagen gegeven hadden, wierpen zij hen in de gevangenis, en geboden den stokbewaarder, dat hij hen zekerlijk bewaren zou.

Handelingen 16:23 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 16:23

And when they had laid many stripes upon them
Even above measure, as in ( 2 Corinthians 11:35 ) . They cast them into prison;
designing doubtless to inflict some greater punishment upon them, after they had further examined into their affairs: charging the jailer to keep them safely;
suggesting, that he must be answerable for them, should they escape, either through his favour or his negligence; and they might rather give this strict charge, because they perceived that they were uncommon men, possessed of a strange power, which they had exerted in the casting out of the evil spirit, which might come to their knowledge by some means or other; they might look upon them to be a sort of magicians, and therefore were to be narrowly watched, that they did not make use of their art to deliver themselves; however, they judged it necessary to use all the precautions they could, to secure them: some have thought this jailer to be the same with Stephanas, ( 1 Corinthians 1:16 ) but this is not certain, nor very probable.

Handelingen 16:23 In-Context

21 En zij verkondigen zeden, die ons niet geoorloofd zijn aan te nemen noch te doen, alzo wij Romeinen zijn.

22 En de schare stond gezamenlijk tegen hen op; en de hoofdmannen, hun de klederen afgescheurd hebbende, bevalen hen te geselen.

23 En als zij hun vele slagen gegeven hadden, wierpen zij hen in de gevangenis, en geboden den stokbewaarder, dat hij hen zekerlijk bewaren zou.

24 Dewelke, zulk een gebod ontvangen hebbende, wierp hen in den binnensten kerker, en verzekerde hun voeten in de stok.

25 En omtrent den middernacht baden Paulus en Silas, en zongen Gode lofzangen en de gevangenen hoorden naar hen.