And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:
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Gill's Exposition
And when they had laid many stripes upon them,.... Even above measure, as in Co2 11:35.
They cast them into prison; designing doubtless to inflict some greater punishment upon them, after they had…
Barnes' Notes
And when they had laid many stripes on them - The Jews were by law prohibited from inflicting more than 40 stripes, and usually inflicted but 39, 2Co 11:24. But there was no such law among the Romans.…
Adam Clarke
Laid many stripes upon them - The Jews never gave more than thirty-nine stripes to any criminal; but the Romans had no law relative to this: they gave as many as they chose; and the apostles had,…
Paul and his companions, though they were for some time buried in obscurity at Philippi, yet now begin to be taken notice of.
I. A damsel that had a spirit of divination caused them to be taken notice…
Cambridge Bible
cast them into prison So that they should have no chance of teaching any longer. They appear (see Act 16:16) to have intended to keep them one night in prison and then to turn them out of the city.
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