Acts 16:37

Coverdale Bible (1535)

But Paul sayde vnto them: They haue beaten vs openly vncondempned (where as we are yet Romaynes) and haue cast vs in preson, and shulde they now thrust vs out preuely? Not so, but let them come them selues, and brynge vs out.

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  • Acts 22:25-29 : 25 And whan he bounde him with thonges, Paul sayde vnto the vndercaptayne that stode by: Is it laufull for you to scourge a man that is a Romayne, and vncondemned? 26 Whan the vndercaptayne herde that, he wete to the vpper captayne, and tolde him, and sayde? What wilt thou do? This man is a Romayne. 27 Then came ye vpper captayne, and sayde vnto him: Tell me, art thou a Romayne? He sayde: Yee. 28 And the vpper captayne answered: With a greate summe optayned I this fredome.But Paul sayde: As for me, I am a Romayne borne. 29 The straight waye departed from him, they that shulde haue examyned him. And ye chefe captayne was afrayed, whan he knewe that he was a Romayne, and because he had bounde him.
  • Ps 58:1-2 : 1 Yf youre myndes be vpon rightuousnesse in dede, then iudge the thinge that is right, o ye sonnes of men. 2 But ye ymagin myschefe in youre hertes, and youre hondes deale with wickednesse.
  • Ps 82:1-2 : 1 God stondeth in the congregacion of the goddes, & is a iudge amonge the iudges. 2 How longe wil ye geue wroge iudgment, & accepte the personnes of the vngodly?
  • Ps 94:20 : 20 Wilt thou haue eny thinge to do with the stole of wickednesse, which ymagineth myschefe in the lawe?
  • Prov 28:1 : 1 The vngodly flyeth no man chasynge him, but the rightuous stondeth stiff as a lyon.
  • Dan 3:25-26 : 25 He answered and sayde: lo, for all that, yet do I se foure men goinge lowse in the myddest off the fyre, and nothinge corrupte: and the fourth is like an angel to loke vpon. 26 Vpon this wete Nabuchodonosor vnto the mouth of the hote burnynge ouen: he speake also, & sayde: O Sydrac, Misac and Abdenago, ye seruauntes of the hye God: go forth, and come hither. And so Sydrac, Misac, and Abdenago wente out of the fyre.
  • Dan 6:18-19 : 18 So the kynge wente in to his palace, and kepte him sober all night, so that there was no table spred before him, nether coude he take eny slepe. 19 But be tymes in the mornynge at the breake off the daye, the kynge arose, and wente in all haist vnto the denne off the Lyons.
  • Matt 10:16 : 16 Beholde, I sende you forth as shepe amoge wolues. Be ye therfore wyse as serpentes, and innocent as doues.
  • Acts 16:20-24 : 20 & broughte the vnto the officers, and sayde: These men trouble oure cyte, & are Iewes, 21 and preach an ordynaunce, which is not laufull for vs to receaue, ner to obserue, seynge we are Romaynes. 22 And the people rane on them, and the officers rente their clothes, and comaunded them to be beaten with roddes. 23 And whan they had beaten them sore, they cast the in preson, and commaunded the iayler, to kepe them diligetly. 24 Which whan he had receaued soch commaundement, he cast the in to the ynner preson, and put their fete in the stockes.

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  • Acts 16:38-40
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    38The mynisters tolde these wordes vnto the officers. And they feared, whan they herde that they were Romaynes,

    39and came and besoughte them, and prayed the to departe out of the cite.

    40Then wente they out of the preson, and entred in to the house of Lydia. And whan they had sene the brethren and comforted them, they departed.

  • Acts 16:35-36
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    35And whan it was daye, the officers of the cite sent mynisters, and sayde: Let those men go.

    36And the keper of the preson tolde this sayenge vnto Paul: The officers haue sent hither, that ye shulde be lowse. Now therfore get you hece, and go in peace.

  • Acts 16:19-28
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    19But wha hir master and mastresse sawe that the hope of their vauntage was gone, they toke Paul and Sylas, drue them in to the market place before ye rulers,

    20& broughte the vnto the officers, and sayde: These men trouble oure cyte, & are Iewes,

    21and preach an ordynaunce, which is not laufull for vs to receaue, ner to obserue, seynge we are Romaynes.

    22And the people rane on them, and the officers rente their clothes, and comaunded them to be beaten with roddes.

    23And whan they had beaten them sore, they cast the in preson, and commaunded the iayler, to kepe them diligetly.

    24Which whan he had receaued soch commaundement, he cast the in to the ynner preson, and put their fete in the stockes.

    25But at mydnight prayed Paul and Sylas, and praysed God. And the presoners herde them.

    26Sodenly was there a greate earth quake, so that the foundacions of the preson were shaken. And immediatly were all the dores open, & all their bondes lowsed

    27Wha the keper of the preson waked out of slepe, and sawe the preson dores open, he drue out his swerde, and wolde haue kylled him selfe: for he thoughte ye presoners had bene fled.

    28But Paul cryed loude, and sayde: Do thy self no harme, for we are all here.

  • Acts 22:23-25
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    23But as they cried, and cast of their clothes, & thrue dust in to the ayre,

    24the captayne bad brynge him into the castell, and commaunded him to be beaten with roddes and to be examyned, that he mighte knowe, for what cause they cried so vpon him.

    25And whan he bounde him with thonges, Paul sayde vnto the vndercaptayne that stode by: Is it laufull for you to scourge a man that is a Romayne, and vncondemned?

  • Acts 21:32-33
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    32Which immediatly toke soudyers and captaynes vnto him, and ranne in amoge them. Whan they sawe the captayne and the soudyers, they lefte smytinge of Paul.

    33Whan the captayne came nye, he toke him, and commaunded him to be bounde with two cheynes, and axed what he was, and what he had done.

  • Acts 28:16-18
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    16But wha we came to Rome, the vndercaptayne delyuered the presoners to ye chefe captayne. As for Paul, he had leue to byde alone with one soudyer that kepte him.

    17After thre dayes it fortuned, yt Paul called ye chefe of ye Iewes together. And wha they were come, he sayde vnto the: Ye me & brethre I haue comytted nothinge agaynst or people, ner agaynst ye lawes of ye fathers, yet was I boude, delyuered out of Ierusale in to ye Romaynes hades:

    18which wha they had examyned me, wolde haue let me go, for so moch as there was no cause of death i me.

  • Acts 23:10
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    10But whan the discension was greate, ye vpper captayne feared, that Paul shulde haue bene pluckte a sonder of them, and commaunded the soudyers to go downe, and to take him from them, and to brynge him in to the castell.

  • Acts 17:9
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    9And whan they had receaued a sufficient answere of Iason and of the other, they let them go.

  • Acts 24:7
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    7But Lysias the hye captayne came vpo vs, and with greate violence delyuered him out of oure handes,

  • Acts 5:21-23
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    21Whan they herde that, they entred in to the temple early in the mornynge: and taught.But the hye prest came, and they yt were with him, and called the councell together, & all ye Elders of the children of Israel, and sent to the preson to fet them.

    22The mynisters came and founde them not in the preson, came agayne, and tolde,

    23and sayde:The preson founde we shut with all diligence, and the kepers stondinge without before the dores: but wha we had opened, we founde noman therin.

  • Acts 16:30
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    30and broughte them out, and sayde: Syrs, what must I do, to be saued?

  • Acts 22:29-30
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    29The straight waye departed from him, they that shulde haue examyned him. And ye chefe captayne was afrayed, whan he knewe that he was a Romayne, and because he had bounde him.

    30On the nexte daye wolde he knowe the certentye wherfore he was accused of the Iewes, and he lowsed him from the bondes, and commaunded the hye prestes and all their councell to come together, and broughte Paul forth, and set him amonge them.

  • Acts 5:40
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    40Then they agreed vnto him, and called the Apostles, and bet them, and commaunded them, that they shulde speake nothinge in the name of Iesu, and let them go.

  • Acts 23:15
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    15Now therfore geue ye knowlege to the vpper captayne and to the councell, that he maye brynge him forth vnto you tomorow, as though ye wolde heare him yet better: As for vs, we are ready to kyll him, or euer he come nye you.

  • Acts 21:30
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    30And all the cite was moued, and the people ranne together. And they toke Paul, and drue him out off the temple, and forth with the dores were shut to.

  • Acts 5:26
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    26Then wete ye rulers with their mynisters, and fetched them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they shulde haue bene stoned.

  • Acts 23:18-19
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    18He toke him, and broughte him to the vpper captayne, and sayde: Paul the presoner called me vnto him, and prayed me to brynge to the this yonge man, which hath somwhat to saye vnto the.

    19Then the hye captayne toke him by the hande, and wente asyde with him out of the waye, and axed him: What is it, that thou hast to saye vnto me?

  • Acts 25:16-17
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    16Vnto whom I answered: It is not the maner off the Romaynes to delyuer eny man that he shulde perishe, before that he which is accused, haue his accusers presente, and receaue libertye to answere for him selfe to the accusacion.

    17Wha they were come hither together, I made no delaye, but sat the nexte daye in iudgment, and commaunded the man to be broughte forth.

  • Acts 27:1
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    1Whan it was concluded that we shulde sayle in to Italy, they delyuered Paul and certayne other presoners to the vndercaptayne named Iulius, of the Emperours soudyers.

  • Acts 19:40
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    40For we stonde in ioperdy to be accused of this dayes vproure: and yet is there no man giltye, of whom we mighte geue a rekenynge of this vproure.

  • Acts 5:19
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    19But the angell of ye LORDE by night opened the preson dores, and brought the out, and sayde:

  • Acts 24:23
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    23But he commaunded the vndercaptayne to kepe Paul, and to let him haue rest, and that he shulde forbydde none of his acquauntauce to mynister vnto him, or to come vnto him.

  • Acts 14:19
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    19But there came thither certayne Iewes from Antioche and Iconiu, and persuaded the people, and stoned Paul, and drue him out of the cite, supposinge he had bene deed.

  • Acts 17:6
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    6But whan they founde them not, they drue Iason, and certayne brethren vnto the rulers of the cite, and cryed: These that trouble all the worlde, are come hither also,

  • Acts 21:36
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    36For the multitude off the people folowed after, and cryed: Awaye with him.

  • Acts 23:31
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    31The soudyers (as it was commaunded them) toke Paul, and broughte him to Antipatras.

  • Acts 26:31
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    31and wente asyde, and talked together, and sayde: This man hath done nothinge that is worthy of death or of bondes.

  • Acts 18:17
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    17Then all the Grekes toke Sosthenes the ruler of the Sinagoge, and smote him before the iudgment seate. And Gallio cared for none of tho thinges.