Hechos 16:29

29 El carcelero pidió luz, entró precipitadamente y se echó temblando a los pies de Pablo y de Silas.

Hechos 16:29 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 16:29

Then he called for a light
Or "lights"; he ordered his servants to bring in some candles; the Syriac version renders it, "he lighted a light for himself"; and the Ethiopic version, "he brought a light": whilst he was under the influence of Satan, and going about a work of darkness, namely, to destroy himself, he was in no concern for a light; but when he was delivered from the temptation and snare, he calls for light:

and sprang in;
leaped in at once, in all haste, into the inner prison:

and came trembling;
not as before, because of the prisoners and their escape; nor merely or so much on account of the earthquake, though the terror of that might not be as yet over; but chiefly through the horror of his conscience, and the dreadful sense he had of himself as a sinner, and of his lost state and condition by nature; the law had entered into his conscience, and had worked wrath there; the Spirit of God had convinced him of his sin and misery, and there was a fearful looking for of fiery indignation in him:

and fell down before Paul and Silas;
not in a way of religious adoration, for they would never have admitted that; but in token of civil respect unto them, and of his great veneration for them, as was the manner of the eastern people; the Syriac version renders it, "he fell down at their feet", and so in Velesius's readings; at those feet, which he had before made fast in the stocks: a strange change and sudden alteration this! what is it that almighty power and efficacious grace cannot do?

Hechos 16:29 In-Context

27 El carcelero despertó y, al ver las puertas de la cárcel de par en par, sacó la espada y estuvo a punto de matarse, porque pensaba que los presos se habían escapado. Pero Pablo le gritó:

28 —¡No te hagas ningún daño! ¡Todos estamos aquí!

29 El carcelero pidió luz, entró precipitadamente y se echó temblando a los pies de Pablo y de Silas.

30 Luego los sacó y les preguntó:—Señores, ¿qué tengo que hacer para ser salvo?

31 —Cree en el Señor Jesús; así tú y tu familia serán salvos —le contestaron.