King James Version
Acts 16:35 in the King James Version says “And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go.” — study this verse from Acts chapter 16 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go.”
Acts 16:35 · KJV
And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes ; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.
And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.
And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go.
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.
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.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“day”
G2250day, i.e., (literally) the time space between dawn and dark, or the whole 24 hours (but several days were usually reckoned by the jews as inclusive of
“when it was”
G1096to cause to be ("gen"-erate), i.e., (reflexively) to become (come into being), used with great latitude (literal, figurative, intensive, etc.)
“sent”
G649set apart, i.e., (by implication) to send out (properly, on a mission) literally or figuratively
“the magistrates”
G4755a general, i.e., (by implication or analogy) a (military) governor (praetor), the chief (praefect) of the (levitical) temple-wardens
“the serjeants”
G4465a rod- (the latin <i>fasces</i>) holder, i.e., a roman lictor (constable or executioner)
“saying”
G3004properly, to "lay" forth, i.e., (figuratively) relate (in words (usually of systematic or set discourse; whereas g2036 and g5346 generally refer to an
“Let”
G630to free fully, i.e., (literally) relieve, release, dismiss (reflexively, depart), or (figuratively) let die, pardon or (specially) divorce
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