Acts 16:36

Geneva Bible (1560)

Then the keeper of the prison tolde these woordes vnto Paul, saying, The gouerness haue sent to loose you: nowe therefore get you hence, and goe in peace.

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  • Acts 15:33 : 33 And after they had taried there a space, they were let goe in peace of the brethren vnto the Apostles.
  • Acts 16:27 : 27 Then the keeper of the prison waked out of his sleepe, and when he sawe the prison doores open, he drewe out his sword and would haue killed himselfe, supposing the prisoners had bin fled.
  • Exod 4:18 : 18 Therefore Moses went and returned to Iethro his father in lawe, & said vnto him, I pray thee, let me goe, and returne to my brethren, which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet aliue. Then Iethro said to Moses, Go in peace.
  • Judg 18:6 : 6 And the Priest sayde vnto them, Goe in peace: for the Lorde guideth your way which ye goe.
  • 1 Sam 1:17 : 17 Then Eli answered, and sayd, Go in peace, and the God of Israel graunt thy petition that thou hast asked of him.
  • 1 Sam 20:42 : 42 Therefore Ionathan said to Dauid, Goe in peace: that which we haue sworne both of vs in the Name of the Lorde, saying, The Lorde be betweene me and thee, and betweene my seede and betweene thy seede, let it stand for euer. (20:43) And he arose and departed, and Ionathan went into the citie.
  • 1 Sam 25:35 : 35 Then Dauid receiued of her hande that which she had brought him, and said to her, Goe vp in peace to thine house: beholde, I haue heard thy voyce, and haue graunted thy petition.
  • 1 Sam 29:7 : 7 Wherefore nowe returne, and go in peace, that thou displease not the princes of the Philistims.
  • 2 Kgs 5:19 : 19 Vnto whome he saide, Goe in peace. So he departed from him about halfe a dayes iourney of grounde.
  • Mark 5:34 : 34 And hee saide to her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole: go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.)
  • John 14:27 : 27 Peace I leaue with you: my peace I giue vnto you: not as the worlde giueth, giue I vnto you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor feare.

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  • Acts 16:35
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    35And when it was day, the gouernours sent the sergeants, saying, Let those men goe.

  • Acts 16:37-40
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    37Then sayde Paul vnto them, After that they haue beaten vs openly vncodemned, which are Romanes, they haue cast vs into prison, and nowe would they put vs out priuily? nay verely: but let them come and bring vs out.

    38And the sergeants tolde these woordes vnto the gouernours, who feared whe they heard that they were Romanes.

    39Then came they and praied them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the citie.

    40And they went out of the prison, and entred into the house of Lydia: and when they had seene the brethren, they comforted them, and departed.

  • Acts 16:22-28
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    22The people also rose vp together against them, and the gouernours rent their clothes, and commaunded them to be beaten with roddes.

    23And when they had beaten them sore, they cast them into prison, commaunding the Iayler to keepe them surely.

    24Who hauing receiued such commaundement, cast them into the inner prison, and made their feete fast in the stockes.

    25Nowe at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sung Psalmes vnto God: and the prisoners heard them.

    26And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundation of the prison was shaken: and by and by all the doores opened, and euery mans bands were loosed.

    27Then the keeper of the prison waked out of his sleepe, and when he sawe the prison doores open, he drewe out his sword and would haue killed himselfe, supposing the prisoners had bin fled.

    28But Paul cryed with a loude voyce, saying, Doe thy selfe no harme: for we are all here.

  • Acts 17:9
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    9Notwithstanding when they had receiued sufficient assurance of Iason and of the other, they let them goe.

  • Acts 15:33
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    33And after they had taried there a space, they were let goe in peace of the brethren vnto the Apostles.

  • Acts 28:16-18
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    16So when we came to Rome, the Centurion deliuered the prisoners to the generall Captaine: but Paul was suffered to dwell by him selfe with a souldier that kept him.

    17And the third day after, Paul called the chiefe of the Iewes together: and when they were come, he said vnto them, Men and brethren, though I haue committed nothing against the people, or Lawes of the fathers, yet was I deliuered prisoner from Hierusalem into the handes of the Romanes.

    18Who when they had examined me, would haue let me goe, because there was no cause of death in me.

  • Acts 24:23
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    23Then hee commaunded a Centurion to keepe Paul, and that he should haue ease, and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister vnto him, or to come vnto him.

  • Acts 21:31-32
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    31But as they went about to kill him, tydings came vnto the chiefe captaine of the band, that all Hierusalem was on an vproare.

    32Who immediately tooke souldiers & Centurions, and ran downe vnto them: and when they sawe the chiefe Captaine and the souldiers, they left beating of Paul.

  • Acts 12:17
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    17And he beckened vnto them with the hand, to hold their peace, and told them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison; he saide, Goe shewe these things vnto Iames and to the brethren: and he departed and went into an other place.

  • Acts 22:29-30
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    29Then straightway they departed from him, which should haue examined him: and the chiefe captaine also was afrayd, after he knewe that hee was a Romane, and that he had bound him.

    30On the next day, because hee would haue knowen the certaintie wherefore he was accused of the Iewes, he loosed him from his bonds, and commaunded the hie Priests and all their Councill to come together: and he brought Paul, and set him before them.

  • Acts 16:19-20
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    19Nowe when her masters sawe that the hope of their gaine was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drewe them into the market place vnto the Magistrates,

    20And brought them to the gouernours, saying, These men which are Iewes, trouble our citie,

  • Acts 16:30
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    30And brought them out, and said, Syrs, what must I doe to be saued?

  • Acts 5:19
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    19But the Angel of the Lorde, by night opened the prison doores, & brought them forth, and sayd,

  • Acts 23:22
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    22The chiefe captaine then let the yong man depart, after hee had charged him to vtter it to no man, that he had shewed him these things.

  • Acts 23:30-32
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    30And when it was shewed me, how that the Iewes layd waite for the man, I sent him straightway to thee, and commaunded his accusers to speake before thee the thinges that they had against him. Farewell.

    31Then the souldiers as it was commaunded them, tooke Paul, and brought him by night to Antipatris.

    32And the next day, they left the horsemen to goe with him, and returned vnto the Castel.

  • Acts 5:22-23
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    22But when the officers came, & found them not in the prison, they returned and tolde it,

    23Saying, Certainely we founde the prison shut as sure as was possible, and the keepers standing without, before the doores: but when we had opened, we found no man within.

  • Acts 23:18-19
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    18So hee tooke him, and brought him to the chiefe captaine, and saide, Paul the prisoner called mee vnto him, and prayed mee to bring this yong man vnto thee, which hath some thing to say vnto thee.

    19Then the chiefe captaine tooke him by the hande, and went apart with him alone, and asked him, What hast thou to shewe me?

  • Acts 22:26
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    26Nowe when the Centurion heard it, hee went, and tolde the chiefe captaine, saying, Take heede what thou doest: for this man is a Romane.

  • Acts 26:30-31
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    30And when he had thus spoken, the King rose vp, and the gouernour, and Bernice, and they that sate with them.

    31And when they were gone apart, they talked betweene themselues, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death, nor of bonds.

  • Acts 23:10-11
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    10And when there was a great dissension, the chiefe captaine, fearing lest Paul should haue bene pulled in pieces of them, commaunded the souldiers to go downe, and take him from among them, and to bring him into the castel.

    11Nowe the night folowing, the Lord stoode by him, and saide, Be of good courage, Paul: for as thou hast testified of mee in Hierusalem, so must thou beare witnesse also at Rome.

  • Mark 11:6
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    6And they sayde vnto them, as Iesus had commanded them: So they let them goe.

  • Acts 18:9
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    9Then saide the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Feare not, but speake, and holde not thy peace.

  • Acts 27:3
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    3And the next day we arriued at Sidon: and Iulius courteously entreated Paul, and gaue him libertie to go vnto his friends, that they might refresh him.

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    36But after certaine dayes, Paul said vnto Barnabas, Let vs returne, & visite our brethren in euery citie, where we haue preached the worde of the Lord, and see how they doe.

  • Acts 21:36-37
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    36For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.

    37And as Paul should haue bene led into the castell, he sayd vnto the chiefe Captaine, May I speake vnto thee? Who sayd, Canst thou speake Greeke?

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    10Nowe when they were past the first and the second watch, they came vnto the yron gate, that leadeth vnto the citie, which opened to them by it owne accord, and they went out, and passed through one streete, and by and by the Angel departed from him.

  • Acts 22:24
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    24The chiefe captaine commanded him to be led into the castle, and bade that he should be scourged, and examined, that he might knowe wherefore they cryed so on him.

  • Acts 27:24
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    24Saying, Feare not, Paul: for thou must be brought before Cesar: and lo, God hath giuen vnto thee freely all that sayle with thee.

  • Judg 18:6
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    6And the Priest sayde vnto them, Goe in peace: for the Lorde guideth your way which ye goe.