Acts 16:38
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New International Version (©1984)
The officers reported this to the magistrates, and when they heard that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens, they were alarmed.

New Living Translation (©2007)
When the police reported this, the city officials were alarmed to learn that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens.

English Standard Version (©2001)
The police reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Roman citizens.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
The policemen reported these words to the chief magistrates. They were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,

International Standard Version (©2008)
The guards reported these words to the magistrates, and they became afraid when they heard that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The guards reported to the officials what Paul had said. When the Roman officials heard that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens, they were afraid.

King James Bible
And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans.

American King James Version
And the sergeants told these words to the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans.

American Standard Version
And the sergeants reported these words unto the magistrates: and they feared when they heard that they were Romans;

Bible in Basic English
And the police gave an account of these words to the authorities, and they were full of fear on hearing that they were Romans;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And let us out themselves. And the serjeants told these words to the magistrates. And they were afraid, hearing that they were Romans.

Darby Bible Translation
And the lictors reported these words to the praetors. And they were afraid when they heard they were Romans.

English Revised Version
And the serjeants reported these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans;

Webster's Bible Translation
And the sergeants told these words to the magistrates: and they feared when they heard that they were Romans.

Weymouth New Testament
This answer the lictors took back to the praetors, who were alarmed when they were told that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens.

World English Bible
The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,

Young's Literal Translation
And the rod-bearers told to the magistrates these sayings, and they were afraid, having heard that they are Romans,

Geneva Study Bible

{21} And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans.

(21) The wicked are not moved with the fear of God, but with the fear of men: and by that means also God provides for his, when it is needed.

People's New Testament

16:38,39 They feared. Had Paul insisted, the magistrates could have been severely punished. They might abuse aliens, but to be a Roman was greater than to be a king. Hence, they humbled themselves, and came, and besought them, and desired them to depart out of that city.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

38. they feared when they heard they were Romans-their authority being thus imperilled; for they were liable to an action for what they had done.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

16:35-40 Paul, though willing to suffer for the cause of Christ, and without any desire to avenge himself, did not choose to depart under the charge of having deserved wrongful punishment, and therefore required to be dismissed in an honourable manner. It was not a mere point of honour that the apostle stood upon, but justice, and not to himself so much as to his cause. And when proper apology is made, Christians should never express personal anger, nor insist too strictly upon personal amends. The Lord will make them more than conquerors in every conflict; instead of being cast down by their sufferings, they will become comforters of their brethren.


Acts 22:29 Therefore those who were about to examine him immediately let go of him; and the commander also was afraid when he found out that he was a Roman, and because he had put him in chains. (NASB ©1995)

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And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans.

and they. 22:29 Mt 14:5 21:46

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