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and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/alford/acts/16.htm" title="Henry Alford - Greek Testament Critical Exegetical Commentary">Alford</a> • <a href="/commentaries/barnes/acts/16.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/bengel/acts/16.htm" title="Bengel's Gnomen">Bengel</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/acts/16.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/acts/16.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/calvin/acts/16.htm" title="Calvin's Commentaries">Calvin</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/acts/16.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/chrysostom/acts/16.htm" title="Chrysostom Homilies">Chrysostom</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/acts/16.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/acts/16.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/acts/16.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers">Ellicott</a> • <a href="/commentaries/expositors/acts/16.htm" title="Expositor's Bible">Expositor's</a> • <a href="/commentaries/edt/acts/16.htm" title="Expositor's Dictionary">Exp Dct</a> • <a href="/commentaries/egt/acts/16.htm" title="Expositor's Greek">Exp Grk</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gaebelein/acts/16.htm" title="Gaebelein's Annotated Bible">Gaebelein</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gsb/acts/16.htm" title="Geneva Study Bible">GSB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gill/acts/16.htm" title="Gill's Bible Exposition">Gill</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gray/acts/16.htm" title="Gray's Concise">Gray</a> • <a href="/commentaries/guzik/acts/16.htm" title="Guzik Bible Commentary">Guzik</a> • <a href="/commentaries/haydock/acts/16.htm" title="Haydock Catholic Bible Commentary">Haydock</a> • <a href="/commentaries/hastings/acts/16-30.htm" title="Hastings Great Texts">Hastings</a> • <a href="/commentaries/homiletics/acts/16.htm" title="Pulpit Homiletics">Homiletics</a> • <a href="/commentaries/icc/acts/16.htm" title="ICC NT Commentary">ICC</a> • <a href="/commentaries/jfb/acts/16.htm" title="Jamieson-Fausset-Brown">JFB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/kelly/acts/16.htm" title="Kelly Commentary">Kelly</a> • <a href="/commentaries/king-en/acts/16.htm" title="Kingcomments Bible Studies">King</a> • <a href="/commentaries/lange/acts/16.htm" title="Lange Commentary">Lange</a> • <a href="/commentaries/maclaren/acts/16.htm" title="MacLaren Expositions">MacLaren</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhc/acts/16.htm" title="Matthew Henry Concise">MHC</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhcw/acts/16.htm" title="Matthew Henry Full">MHCW</a> • <a href="/commentaries/meyer/acts/16.htm" title="Meyer Commentary">Meyer</a> • <a href="/commentaries/parker/acts/16.htm" title="The People's Bible by Joseph Parker">Parker</a> • <a href="/commentaries/pnt/acts/16.htm" title="People's New Testament">PNT</a> • <a href="/commentaries/poole/acts/16.htm" title="Matthew Poole">Poole</a> • <a href="/commentaries/pulpit/acts/16.htm" title="Pulpit Commentary">Pulpit</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sermon/acts/16.htm" title="Sermon Bible">Sermon</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sco/acts/16.htm" title="Scofield Reference Notes">SCO</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ttb/acts/16.htm" title="Through The Bible">TTB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/vws/acts/16.htm" title="Vincent's Word Studies">VWS</a> • <a href="/commentaries/wes/acts/16.htm" title="Wesley's Notes">WES</a> • <a href="#tsk" title="Treasury of Scripture Knowledge">TSK</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="comtype">EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/acts/16.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(33) <span class= "bld">He . . . washed their stripes; and was baptized . . .</span>—The two-fold washings, that which testified of the repentance of the gaoler and his kindly reverence for his prisoners, and that which they administered to him as the washing of regeneration, are placed in suggestive juxtaposition. He, too, was cleansed from wounds which were worse than those inflicted by the rods of the Roman lictors. No certain answer can be given to the question whether the baptism was by immersion or affusion. A public prison was likely enough to contain a bath or pool of some kind, where the former would be feasible. What has been said above (see Note on <a href="/acts/16-15.htm" title="And when she was baptized, and her household, she sought us, saying, If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.">Acts 16:15</a>) as to the bearing of these narratives on the question of infant baptism applies here also, with the additional fact that those who are said to have been baptised are obviously identical with those whom St. Paul addressed (the word “all” is used in each case), and must, therefore, have been of an age to receive instruction together with the gaoler himself.<p><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/acts/16.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>16:25-34 The consolations of God to his suffering servants are neither few nor small. How much more happy are true Christians than their prosperous enemies! As in the dark, so out of the depths, we may cry unto God. No place, no time is amiss for prayer, if the heart be lifted up to God. No trouble, however grievous, should hinder us from praise. Christianity proves itself to be of God, in that it obliges us to be just to our own lives. Paul cried aloud to make the jailer hear, and to make him heed, saying, Do thyself no harm. All the cautions of the word of God against sin, and all appearances of it, and approaches to it, have this tendency. Man, woman, do not ruin thyself; hurt not thyself, and then none else can hurt thee; do not sin, for nothing but that can hurt thee. Even as to the body, we are cautioned against the sins which do harm to that. Converting grace changes people's language of and to good people and good ministers. How serious the jailer's inquiry! His salvation becomes his great concern; that lies nearest his heart, which before was furthest from his thoughts. It is his own precious soul that he is concerned about. Those who are thoroughly convinced of sin, and truly concerned about their salvation, will give themselves up to Christ. Here is the sum of the whole gospel, the covenant of grace in a few words; Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. The Lord so blessed the word, that the jailer was at once softened and humbled. He treated them with kindness and compassion, and, professing faith in Christ, was baptized in that name, with his family. The Spirit of grace worked such a strong faith in them, as did away further doubt; and Paul and Silas knew by the Spirit, that a work of God was wrought in them. When sinners are thus converted, they will love and honour those whom they before despised and hated, and will seek to lessen the suffering they before desired to increase. When the fruits of faith begin to appear, terrors will be followed by confidence and joy in God.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/acts/16.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>And he took them - To a convenient place for washing. It is evident from this that, though the apostles had the gift of miracles, they did not exercise it in regard to their own sufferings or to heal their own wounds. They restored others to health, not themselves.<p>And washed their stripes - The wounds which had been inflicted by the severe scourging which they had received the night before. We have here a remarkable instance of the effect of religion in producing humanity and tenderness. This same man, a few hours before, had thrust them into the inner prison, and made them fast in the stocks. He evidently had then no concern about their stripes or their wounds. But no sooner was he converted than one of his first acts was an act of humanity. He saw them suffering; he pitied them, and hastened to minister to them and to heal their wounds. Until the time of Christianity there never had been a hospital or an almshouse. Nearly all the hospitals for the sick since have been reared by Christians. They who are most ready to minister to the sick and dying are Christians. They who are most willing to encounter the pestilential damps of dungeons to aid the prisoner are, like Howard, Christians. Who ever saw an infidel attending a dying bed if he could help it? and where has infidelity ever reared a hospital or an almshouse, or made provision for the widow and the fatherless? Often one of the most striking changes that occurs in conversion is seen in the disposition to be kind and humane to the suffering. Compare <a href="/james/1-27.htm">James 1:27</a>.<p>And was baptized - This was done straightway; that is, immediately. As it is altogether improbable that either in his house or in the prison there would be water sufficient for immersing them, there is every reason to suppose that this was performed in some other mode. All the circumstances lead us to suppose that it was not by immersion. It was at the dead of night; in a prison; amidst much agitation; and was evidently performed in haste. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/acts/16.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>33. And he took them—the word implies change of place.<p>the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes—in the well or fountain which was within or near the precincts of the prison [Howson]. The mention of "the same hour of the night" seems to imply that they had to go forth into the open air, which, unseasonable as the hour was, they did. These bleeding wounds had never been thought of by the indifferent jailer. But now, when his whole heart was opened to his spiritual benefactors, he cannot rest until he has done all in his power for their bodily relief.<p>and was baptized, he and all his, straightway—probably at the same fountain, since it took place "straightway"; the one washing on his part being immediately succeeded by the other on theirs.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/acts/16.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> <span class="bld">The same hour of the night; </span> he did not delay to show forth the fruits of his faith, and real conversion. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">And washed their stripes; </span> which his stripes had made, using such means as might assuage their pain, and heal their wounds. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">He and all his: See Poole on "<a href="/acts/16-15.htm" title="And when she was baptized, and her household, she sought us, saying, If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.">Acts 16:15</a>"</span>, <span class="bld">See Poole on "<a href="/acts/16-32.htm" title="And they spoke to him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house.">Acts 16:32</a>"</span>. Of baptism administered without any delay, upon their profession of faith in Christ, we have had examples, <span class="bld"><a href="/acts/8-38.htm" title="And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.">Acts 8:38</a>,10:47</span>, and in <span class="bld"><a href="/acts/16-15.htm" title="And when she was baptized, and her household, she sought us, saying, If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.">Acts 16:15</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/acts/16.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>And he took them the same hour of the night,.... After they had done preaching to him, and to his family: <p>and washed their stripes; which were very many and heavy, and whereby they were covered with blood; and which by this time began to fester, and to produce corrupt matter; and all this in a pool, which Grotius supposes was within the bounds of the prison, he washed off from them: his faith worked by love, and showed itself in fruits of charity and righteousness, and in obedience to Christ, and submission to his ordinance, as follows: <p>and was baptized, he and all his, straightway; by immersion, that being the only way in which baptism was administered, or can be, so as to be called a baptism: and which might be administered, either in the pool, which Grotius supposes to have been in the prison; or in the river near the city, where the oratory was, <a href="/acts/16-13.htm">Acts 16:13</a> and it is no unreasonable thought to suppose, that they might go out of the prison thither, and administer the ordinance, and return to the prison again before morning unobserved by any; and after that, enter into the jailer's house and be refreshed, as in the following verse; and as this instance does not at all help the cause of sprinkling, so neither the baptism of infants; for as the jailer's family were baptized as well as he, so they had the word of the Lord spoken to them as well as he, and believed as well as he, and rejoiced as he did; all which cannot be said of infants; and besides, it must be proved that he had infants in his house, and that these were taken out of their beds in the middle of the night, and baptized by Paul, ere the instance can be thought to be of any service to infant baptism. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/acts/16.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2"><span class="cverse3">{18}</span> And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed <i>their</i> stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.</span><p>(18) God with the very same hand wounds and heals when it pleases him.</div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/meyer/acts/16.htm">Meyer's NT Commentary</a></div><a href="/context/acts/16-33.htm" title="And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway....">Acts 16:33-34</a>. <span class="greekheb">Παραλαβ</span>. <span class="greekheb">αὐτοὺς</span> … <span class="greekheb">ἔλουσεν</span>] <span class="ital">he took and washed them</span>. Vividness of delineation. Probably he led them to a neighbouring water, perhaps in the court of the house, in which his baptism and that of his household was immediately completed.[60]<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="greekheb">ἀπὸ τῶν πληγῶν</span>] a pregnant expression: so that <span class="ital">they were cleansed from the stripes</span> (from the blood of the inflicted wounds, <a href="/acts/16-22.htm" title="And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them.">Acts 16:22</a> f.). See Buttmann, <span class="ital">neut. Gr.</span> p. 276 f. [E. T. 322].<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="greekheb">παραχρῆμα</span>] the adverb emphatically placed at the end; comp. on <a href="/matthew/2-10.htm" title="When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.">Matthew 2:10</a>, and Kühner, § 863. 1.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="greekheb">ἀναγαγών</span>] We are to think of the official dwelling of the jailor as being built <span class="ital">above</span> the prison-cells; comp. <a href="/acts/9-39.htm" title="Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them.">Acts 9:39</a>; <a href="/luke/4-5.htm" title="And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, showed to him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.">Luke 4:5</a>; <a href="/luke/22-67.htm" title="Are you the Christ? tell us. And he said to them, If I tell you, you will not believe:">Luke 22:67</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="greekheb">παρέθηκε τράπεζαν</span>] quite the Latin <span class="ital">apposuit mensam</span>, i.e. <span class="ital">he gave a repast;</span> to be explained from the custom of setting out the table before those who were to be entertained, Hom. <span class="ital">Od.</span> v. 92, xxi. 29; Polyb. xxxix. 2. 11.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="greekheb">πανοικί</span>] <span class="greekheb">σὺν ὅλῳ τῷ οἴκῳ</span>, Phavorinus. It belongs to <span class="greekheb">πεπιστ</span>. A more classical form (yet see Plat. <span class="ital">Eryx.</span> p. 392 C), according to the Atticists, would have been <span class="greekheb">πανοικίᾳ</span> or <span class="greekheb">πανοικησίᾳ</span>, Lobeck, <span class="ital">ad Phryn.</span> p. 514 ff. See examples from Philo in Loesner, p. 208.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="greekheb">πεπιστευκὼς τῷ Θεῷ</span>] <span class="ital">because he had become and was a believer on God</span> (perfect). He, the Gentile, now believed the divine promises of salvation announced to him by Paul and Silas (<a href="/acts/16-32.htm" title="And they spoke to him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house.">Acts 16:32</a>); comp. <a href="/acts/16-15.htm" title="And when she was baptized, and her household, she sought us, saying, If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.">Acts 16:15</a>; <a href="/acts/18-8.htm" title="And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.">Acts 18:8</a>. That this his <span class="greekheb">πιστεύειν</span> was definitely Christian faith, and accordingly equivalent to <span class="greekheb">πιστεύειν τῷ Κυρίῳ</span>, was self-evident to the reader; see also <a href="/acts/16-32.htm" title="And they spoke to him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house.">Acts 16:32</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>That, after <a href="/acts/16-34.htm" title="And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.">Acts 16:34</a>, Paul and Silas had returned to prison, follows from <a href="/context/acts/16-36.htm" title="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....">Acts 16:36-40</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>[60] This is confirmed by the fact that baptism took place by complete immersion,—in opposition to Baumgarten, p. 515, who, transferring the performance of baptism to the house, finds here “an approximation to the later custom of simplifying the ceremony,” according to which complete immersion did not take place. Immersion was, in fact, quite an essential part of the symbolism of baptism (Romans 6).<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/egt/acts/16.htm">Expositor's Greek Testament</a></div><a href="/acts/16-33.htm" title="And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.">Acts 16:33</a>. <span class="greekheb">ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ὥρᾳ τῆς νυκτὸς</span>, <span class="ital">cf.</span> <a href="/acts/16-18.htm" title="And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour.">Acts 16:18</a>, “at that hour of the night”; the jailor will not delay for a moment his first Christian duty, <a href="/matthew/25-36.htm" title="Naked, and you clothed me: I was sick, and you visited me: I was in prison, and you came to me.">Matthew 25:36</a>.—<span class="greekheb">ἔλουσεν ἀπὸ τῶν πληγῶν</span>: “and washed them of their stripes,” Ramsay; <span class="ital">i.e.</span>, the stains of the wounds caused by the lictors (for similar construction of <span class="greekheb">λούειν ἀπό</span> see Deissmann, <span class="ital">Neue Bibelstudien</span>, p. 54). Hobart, p. 112, compares Galen’s words, <span class="greekheb">τὸ αἷμα τοῦ τετρωμένου μέρους ἀποπλῦναι</span>.—<span class="greekheb">καὶ οἱ αὐτοῦ πάντες</span>: for the bearing of the words on Infant Baptism, see on <a href="/acts/16-15.htm" title="And when she was baptized, and her household, she sought us, saying, If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.">Acts 16:15</a>. It may of course be said that the expression evidently implies the same persons who are instructed in <a href="/acts/16-32.htm" title="And they spoke to him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house.">Acts 16:32</a>, but it cannot be said that the phrase may not include any other members of the household. The two washings are put in striking juxtaposition: the waters of baptism washed the jailor from deeper stains and more grievous wounds than those of the lictors’ rods, Chrys., <span class="ital">Hom.</span>, xxxvi.—<span class="greekheb">παραχρῆμα</span>, emphatic, see above on p. 106.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/acts/16.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">33</span>. <span class="ital">the same hour of the night</span>] It was midnight, see <a href="/acts/16-25.htm" title="And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises to God: and the prisoners heard them.">Acts 16:25</a>. But a new day, a birthday, had already begun for him and it must be kept as a feast, and he does his utmost to shew his rejoicing by care for those who had caused it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">washed their stripes</span>] An act of attendance that had not been bestowed before. They were thrust into the inner prison, with all their wounds bleeding and uncared for.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/bengel/acts/16.htm">Bengel's Gnomen</a></div><a href="/acts/16-33.htm" title="And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.">Acts 16:33</a>. <span class="greekheb">Ἔλουσεν</span>, <span class="ital">washed</span>: <span class="greekheb">ἐβαπτίσθη</span>, <span class="ital">he was baptized</span>) A beautiful interchange (correspondence) of offices of love.—<span class="greekheb">παραχεῆμα</span>, <span class="ital">straightway</span>) A wonderful turning-point of time (momentum).<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/acts/16.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 33.</span> <span class="accented">- Immediately</span> for <span class="accented">straightway</span>, A.V. <span class="cmt_word">Washed their stripes</span>. Mark the jailor's faith working by love. <span class="cmt_word">He and all his</span>. The phrase seems purposely adapted to include family, slaves, and all under his roof. If the conversion of the jailor and his house was sudden, the circumstances which led to it were of unusual power - the earthquake, the loosing of the prisoners' bands, the midnight hour, the words of grace and love and lifo from the apostle's mouth. Acts 16:33<a name="vws" id="vws"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/vws/acts/16.htm">Vincent's Word Studies</a></div>He took (παραλαβὼν)<p>Strictly, "took them along with (παρά) him:" to some other part of the prison.<p>Washed their stripes (ἔλουσεν ἀπὸ τῶν πληγῶν)<p>Properly, "washed them from (ἀπό) their stripes." The verb λούειν, expresses the bathing of the entire body (<a href="/hebrews/10-23.htm">Hebrews 10:23</a>; <a href="/acts/9-37.htm">Acts 9:37</a>; <a href="/2_peter/2-22.htm">2 Peter 2:22</a>); while νίπτειν commonly means the washing of a part of the body (<a href="/matthew/6-17.htm">Matthew 6:17</a>; <a href="/mark/7-3.htm">Mark 7:3</a>; <a href="/john/13-5.htm">John 13:5</a>). 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