Acts 16:39
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New International Version (©1984)
They came to appease them and escorted them from the prison, requesting them to leave the city.

New Living Translation (©2007)
So they came to the jail and apologized to them. Then they brought them out and begged them to leave the city.

English Standard Version (©2001)
So they came and apologized to them. And they took them out and asked them to leave the city.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
and they came and appealed to them, and when they had brought them out, they kept begging them to leave the city.

International Standard Version (©2008)
So the magistrates came, apologized to them, and escorted them out. Then they asked them to leave the city.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
So the officials went to the jail and apologized to Paul and Silas. As the officials escorted Paul and Silas out of the jail, they asked them to leave the city.

King James Bible
And they came and besought them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the city.

American King James Version
And they came and sought them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the city.

American Standard Version
and they came and besought them; and when they had brought them out, they asked them to go away from the city.

Bible in Basic English
Then they came and made prayers to them, requesting them, when they had taken them out, to go away from the town.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And coming, they besought them; and bringing them out, they desired them to depart out of the city.

Darby Bible Translation
And they came and besought them, and having brought them out, asked them to go out of the city.

English Revised Version
and they came and besought them; and when they had brought them out, they asked them to go away from the city.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they came and besought them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the city.

Weymouth New Testament
Accordingly they came and apologized to them; and, bringing them out, asked them to leave the city.

World English Bible
and they came and begged them. When they had brought them out, they asked them to depart from the city.

Young's Literal Translation
and having come, they besought them, and having brought them forth, they were asking them to go forth from the city;

Geneva Study Bible

And they came and besought them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the city.

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

39, 40. And they came-in person.

and besought them-not to complain of them. What a contrast this suppliant attitude of the preachers of Philippi to the tyrannical air with which they had the day before treated the preachers! (See Isa 60:14; Re 3:9).

brought them out-conducted them forth from the prison into the street, as insisted on.

and desired-"requested."

them to depart out of the city-perhaps fearing again to excite the populace.

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.


Matthew 8:34 And behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus; and when they saw Him, they implored Him to leave their region. (NASB ©1995)

Accordingly Appealed Appease Begged Begging Besought City Depart Desired Escorted Forth Kept Leave Prayers Prison Requesting


And they came and besought them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the city.

came. Ex 11:8 Isa 45:14 49:23 60:14 Mic 7:9,10 Re 3:9

and brought. Da 6:16,23

and desired. Mt 8:34 Mr 5:17

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