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Acts 16:33 The jailer took them that very hour of the night and washed their wounds and immediately he was baptized, he and all his household
- washed (KJV): Ac 16:23 Pr 16:7 Isa 11:6-9 Mt 25:35-40 Lu 10:33,34 Ga 5:6,13
- and was (KJV): Ac 16:15 Lu 19:9 1Co 1:16
This is the "about face" supernatural turnaround that one sees when a person is genuinely converted and has a true change in lifestyle. The change in the attitude of the jailer is clearly manifest in washing the wounds of these two prisoners for they were now his brothers in Christ, not his enemies. One evidence of genuine repentance is a desire to make restitution and reparation to those whom we have hurt. Jesus left us the perfect "template" to follow declaring…
If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. "For I gave you an example that you also should do as I did to you. (John 13:14-15)
Washed their wounds - what the jailor did to remove the stains left by the rods of the lictors
Wiersbe -.
Immediately he was baptized - Remember this must have been sometime between midnight and daylight! One wonders how many people have so desired to identify with Christ that they sought baptism irregardless of the hour or circumstances? How long did it take for you to be baptized after you were born again? Have you ever been baptized? Are you born again? If you are you should seek to be baptized as a public testimony to the goodness and grace of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to save your soul!
And so they were baptized just like Lydia and her household (Acts 16:15) and just like those men and women who responded to Phillip's proclamation of the Gospel…
But when they believed Philip preaching the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were being baptized, men and women alike. (Acts 8:12)
Wiersbe poses an interesting question - What about the other prisoners? Luke doesn't give us the details, but it is possible that some of them were also born again through the witness of Paul and Silas and the jailer. Some of these prisoners may have been waiting for execution, so imagine their joy at hearing a message of salvation! Paul and Silas thought nothing of their own pains as they rejoiced in what God did in that Philippian jail! No doubt the jailer later joined with Lydia in the assembly.
Adrian Rogers - Right away he and all his family were baptized. Acts 16:33 - The great ingathering of souls recorded on the Day of Pentecost in Acts 2 affirms that a person must first receive the word of the gospel, and then be baptized. Those of Cornelius's house in Acts 10 followed the same procedure: they first received the Holy Spirit, and then they were baptized. In Acts 16, Paul and Silas said to the Philippian jailer, "Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved" (Acts 16:31). That same hour of the night, he and his family were baptized. First he heard the word of the Lord, believed on Jesus, and then was baptized. This is the biblical order. (What Every Christian Ought to Know)
Acts 16:34 And he brought them into his house and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, having believed in God with his whole household.
- when (KJV): Lu 5:29 19:6 Php 4:17 1Th 4:9,10 Phm 1:7 Jas 2:14-17 1Jn 3:18
- and rejoiced (KJV): Acts 16:27-29 Acts 2:46 Acts 8:39 Isa 12:1-3 55:12 57:17,18 58:7-11 61:10 Lu 15:22-25,32 Ro 5:2,11 Ro 15:13 Ga 5:22 Php 4:4 1Pe 1:6-8
CSB He brought them up into his house, set a meal before them, and rejoiced because he had believed God with his entire household. (Act 16:34 CSB)
Robertson on brought them into (up) - (κολυμβηθρα [kolumbēthra]) found within the walls of the prison (Kuinoel). Meyer: “Perhaps the water was in the court of the house; and the baptism was that of immersion, which formed an essential part of the symbolism of the act.”
The jailer rejoiced greatly - The very one who moments before was on the verge of committing suicide, was now rejoicing in his new found faith (and that of his family) in the living God.
Rejoiced (Exulted, Jumped.
Barclay writes that agalliao "is the joy which leaps for joy. As it has been put, it is the joy of the climber who has reached the summit, and who leaps for joy that the mountain path is conquered." (Daily Study Bible)
Joy and believing
Acts 8:39 (context Acts 8:30-38) When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away; and the eunuch no longer saw him, but went on his way rejoicing.
Romans 15:13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
NET Note - All his family. It was often the case in the ancient world that conversion of the father led to the conversion of all those in the household.
MacArthur adds - All of his family, servants, and guests who could comprehend the gospel and believe heard the gospel and believed. This does not include infants.
Robertson - The whole household (family, warden, slaves) heard the word of God, believed in the Lord Jesus, made confession, were baptized, and rejoiced. Furneaux considers the haste in baptism here “precipitate” as in the baptism of the eunuch. But why delay?
Wiers!
Acts 16:25-34 A Forgiving Spirit
By David C. Egner
Pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you. —Matthew 5:44..).
We are never more Christlike than when we choose to forgive
Acts 16:35 Now when day came, the chief magistrates sent their policemen, saying, “Release those men.”
- Ac 4:21 5:40 Ps 76:10 Jer 5:22
- Sir William Ramsay - Acts 16:35 (St Paul the Traveller and Roman Citizen)
Vincent on policemen - Lit., those who hold the rod. The Roman lictors. They were the attendants of the chief Roman magistrates.
“Ho, trumpets, sound a war-note!
Ho, lictors, clear the way!
The knights will ride, in all their pride,
Along the streets to day.” axe bound up in a bundle of rods; but in the