Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Acts 16:22
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible. Browse this work.
Read Acts 16. Compare commentaries on this chapter.
Source and publication rights
Public domain. Public Domain. Source edition.
Berean Blue opens December 1, 2026. Explore this passage in the app preview.
Acts16:22
22. the multitude rose up together against them--so Ac 19:28, 34; 21:30; Lu 23:18.
the magistrates rent off their--Paul's and Silas'
clothes--that is, ordered the lictors, or rod-bearers, to tear them off, so as to expose their naked bodies (see on Ac 16:37). The word expresses the roughness with which this was done to prisoners preparatory to whipping.
and commanded to beat them--without any trial (Ac 16:37), to appease the popular rage. Thrice, it seems, Paul endured this indignity (2Co 11:25).
Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, Acts 16:22. Public domain.
Permanent link. Source edition.