Acts Chapter 16 verse 33 Holy Bible
And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, immediately.
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And that same hour of the night, he took them, and when he had given attention to their wounds, he and all his family had baptism straight away.
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And he took them the same hour of the night and washed [them] from their stripes; and was baptised, he and all his straightway.
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And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.
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He took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.
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and having taken them, in that hour of the night, he did bathe `them' from the blows, and was baptized, himself and all his presently,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 33. - Immediately for straightway, A.V. Washed their stripes. Mark the jailor's faith working by love. He and all his. 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.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(33) He . . . washed their stripes; and was baptized . . .--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 Acts 16:15) 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.
