And when they had taken security of Jason, and of the other, they let them go.
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Gill's Exposition
And when they had taken security of Jason, and of the other,.... That is, received satisfaction from them, by the defence which they made for themselves, and the apostles, by the account that they…
Barnes' Notes
And when they had taken security of Jason - This is an expression taken from courts, and means that Jason and the other gave satisfaction to the magistrates for the good conduct of Paul and Silas, or…
Adam Clarke
Taken security - Λαβοντες το ἱκανον, Having taken what was sufficient, or satisfactory. Sufficient for the present, to prove that the apostles were upright, peaceable, and loyal men; and that Jason…
Paul's two epistles to the Thessalonians, the first two he wrote by inspiration, give such a shining character of that church, that we cannot but be glad here in the history to meet with an account of…
Cambridge Bible
And when they had taken security of Jason i.e. having made him responsible either by his finding securities to be bound with and for him, or by making him give some deposit as a pledge for his good…