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Acts 16:33

at the same time of night he washed their stripes, and immediately he was baptized, he, and all that belong'd to him.

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Baptism;   Converts;   Criminals;   Faith;   Family;   Jailer (Jailor);   Minister, Christian;   Paul;   Philippi;   Prisoners;   Readings, Select;   Silas;   Thompson Chain Reference - Baptism;   Brotherly Kindness;   Character Transformed;   Compassion;   Conversion;   Family;   Home;   Human;   Kindness;   Kindness-Cruelty;   Missions, World-Wide;   Religion;   Sacraments;   Social Duties;   Sympathy-Pitilessness;   Worship;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Families;   Prisons;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Philippi;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Baptism;   Macedonia;   Paul;   Philippi;   Philippians, letter to the;   Silas;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Ordination;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Philippi;   Scourging;   Stephanas;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Baptism;   Noah;   Philadelphia;   Thessalonica;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ablutions;   Acts;   Baptism;   Colony;   Household;   Infant Baptism;   Macedonia;   Ordinances;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Baptism;   Galatians, Epistle to the;   Lydia;   Magistrate;   Philippians, Epistle to;   Vision;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Atonement (2);   Baptism;   Family;   Jailor;   Philippians Epistle to the;   Silas or Silyanus;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Philippi ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Lydia;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Lystra;   Philippi;   Philippians;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Paul;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Saul of Tarsus;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Baptism (Lutheran Doctrine);   Persecution;   Philippi;  

Parallel Translations

Simplified Cowboy Version
Even though it was the middle of the night, the jailer cleaned up their wounds. Then the jailer and his whole family were baptized.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And he took them that very hour of the night and washed their wounds, and immediately he was baptized, he and all his household.
Legacy Standard Bible
And he took them that very hour of the night and washed their wounds, and immediately he was baptized, he and all his household.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Darby Translation
And he took them the same hour of the night and washed [them] from their stripes; and was baptised, he and all his straightway.
New King James Version
And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes. And immediately he and all his family were baptized.
Christian Standard Bible®
He took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds. Right away he and all his family were baptized.
World English Bible
He took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And taking them that very hour of the night, he washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his houshold.
Weymouth's New Testament
Then he took them, even at that time of night, washed their wounds, and he and all his household were immediately baptized;
King James Version (1611)
And hee tooke them the same houre of the night, and washed their stripes, and was baptized, hee and all his, straightway.
Literal Translation
And taking them in that hour of the night, he washed from their stripes. And he and all those belonging to him were baptized at once.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And he toke them to him in the same houre of the night, and wasshed their strypes. And immediatly was he baptysed, and all his.
Amplified Bible
And he took them that very hour of the night and washed their bloody wounds, and immediately he was baptized, he and all his household.
American Standard Version
And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, immediately.
Revised Standard Version
And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their wounds, and he was baptized at once, with all his family.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And he toke them the same houre of the nyght and wasshed their woundes and was baptised with all that belonged vnto him strayght waye.
Update Bible Version
And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, immediately.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed [their] stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, without delay.
Young's Literal Translation
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,
New Century Version
At that hour of the night the jailer took Paul and Silas and washed their wounds. Then he and all his people were baptized immediately.
New English Translation
At that hour of the night he took them and washed their wounds; then he and all his family were baptized right away.
Berean Standard Bible
At that hour of the night, the jailer took them and washed their wounds. And without delay, he and all his household were baptized.
Contemporary English Version
While it was still night, the jailer took them to a place where he could wash their cuts and bruises. Then he and everyone in his home were baptized.
Complete Jewish Bible
Then, even at that late hour of the night, the jailer took them and washed off their wounds; and without delay, he and all his people were immersed.
English Standard Version
And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds; and he was baptized at once, he and all his family.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Afterwarde he tooke them the same houre of the night, and washed their stripes, and was baptized with all that belonged vnto him, straigthway.
George Lamsa Translation
And he took them at that hour of the night and washed their wounds; and then was baptized in that very hour, he and all his household.
Hebrew Names Version
He took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was immediately immersed, he and all his household.
International Standard Version
At that hour of the night he took them and washed their wounds. Then he and his entire family were baptized immediately.
Etheridge Translation
And in the same hour of that night, he took and washed them from their stripes, and was forthwith baptized, and all the sons of his house.
Murdock Translation
And the same hour of the night, he took and washed them from their stripes; and he was baptized immediately, he and all the members of his house.
New Living Translation
Even at that hour of the night, the jailer cared for them and washed their wounds. Then he and everyone in his household were immediately baptized.
New Life Bible
It was late at night, but the man who watched the prison took Paul and Silas in and washed the places on their bodies where they were hurt. Right then he and his family were baptized.
English Revised Version
And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, immediately.
New Revised Standard
At the same hour of the night he took them and washed their wounds; then he and his entire family were baptized without delay.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, taking them with him, in that hour of the night, he bathed them from their stripes, and was immersed, he, and his, one and all, on the spot;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he, taking them the same hour of the night, washed their stripes: and himself was baptized, and all his house immediately.
King James Version
And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.
Lexham English Bible
And he took them at that very hour of the night and washed their wounds, and he himself was baptized at once, and all those of his household.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he toke them the same houre of the nyght, and wasshed their woundes, and was baptized hym selfe, & all they of his householde strayghtway.
Easy-to-Read Version
It was late at night, but the jailer took Paul and Silas and washed their wounds. Then the jailer and all his people were baptized.
New American Standard Bible
And he took them that very hour of the night and washed their wounds, and immediately he was baptized, he and all his household.
Good News Translation
At that very hour of the night the jailer took them and washed their wounds; and he and all his family were baptized at once.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he took hem in the ilke our of the niyt, and waschide her woundis. And he was baptisid, and al his hous anoon.

Contextual Overview

25 At midnight Paul and Silas went to prayers, and sang praises to God, which the other prisoners heard: 26 when all of a sudden there was such a great earthquake, that the foundations of the prison were shaken: immediately all the doors opened, and the setters dropp'd from the prisoners. 27 the jayler waking, and seeing the prison-doors open, drew his sword, designing to dispatch himself from the apprehension that the prisoners had escaped. 28 but Paul call'd to him aloud, and said, do thy self no harm, for we are all here. 29 then having called for a light, he ran in, and with trembling fell down before Paul and Silas; 30 and bringing them out, he said, sirs, what must I do to be saved? 31 believe, said they, on the Lord Jesus, and you shall be saved, you, and your family. 32 then they declared the word of the Lord to him, and to all his family. 33 at the same time of night he washed their stripes, and immediately he was baptized, he, and all that belong'd to him. 34 then he conducted them to his house, and gave them an entertainment; and he and his family were affected with joy, for having believed in God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

washed: Acts 16:23, Proverbs 16:7, Isaiah 11:6-9, Matthew 25:35-40, Luke 10:33, Luke 10:34, Galatians 5:6, Galatians 5:13

and was: Acts 16:15, Luke 19:9, 1 Corinthians 1:16

Reciprocal: 2 Corinthians 11:25 - I beaten Hebrews 6:2 - the doctrine

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he took them the same hour of the night,.... After they had done preaching to him, and to his family:

and washed their stripes; which were very many and heavy, and whereby they were covered with blood; and which by this time began to fester, and to produce corrupt matter; and all this in a pool, which Grotius supposes was within the bounds of the prison, he washed off from them: his faith worked by love, and showed itself in fruits of charity and righteousness, and in obedience to Christ, and submission to his ordinance, as follows:

and was baptized, he and all his, straightway; by immersion, that being the only way in which baptism was administered, or can be, so as to be called a baptism: and which might be administered, either in the pool, which Grotius supposes to have been in the prison; or in the river near the city, where the oratory was, Acts 16:13 and it is no unreasonable thought to suppose, that they might go out of the prison thither, and administer the ordinance, and return to the prison again before morning unobserved by any; and after that, enter into the jailer's house and be refreshed, as in the following verse; and as this instance does not at all help the cause of sprinkling, so neither the baptism of infants; for as the jailer's family were baptized as well as he, so they had the word of the Lord spoken to them as well as he, and believed as well as he, and rejoiced as he did; all which cannot be said of infants; and besides, it must be proved that he had infants in his house, and that these were taken out of their beds in the middle of the night, and baptized by Paul, ere the instance can be thought to be of any service to infant baptism.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And he took them - To a convenient place for washing. It is evident from this that, though the apostles had the gift of miracles, they did not exercise it in regard to their own sufferings or to heal their own wounds. They restored others to health, not themselves.

And washed their stripes - The wounds which had been inflicted by the severe scourging which they had received the night before. We have here a remarkable instance of the effect of religion in producing humanity and tenderness. This same man, a few hours before, had thrust them into the inner prison, and made them fast in the stocks. He evidently had then no concern about their stripes or their wounds. But no sooner was he converted than one of his first acts was an act of humanity. He saw them suffering; he pitied them, and hastened to minister to them and to heal their wounds. Until the time of Christianity there never had been a hospital or an almshouse. Nearly all the hospitals for the sick since have been reared by Christians. They who are most ready to minister to the sick and dying are Christians. They who are most willing to encounter the pestilential damps of dungeons to aid the prisoner are, like Howard, Christians. Who ever saw an infidel attending a dying bed if he could help it? and where has infidelity ever reared a hospital or an almshouse, or made provision for the widow and the fatherless? Often one of the most striking changes that occurs in conversion is seen in the disposition to be kind and humane to the suffering. Compare James 1:27.

And was baptized - This was done straightway; that is, immediately. As it is altogether improbable that either in his house or in the prison there would be water sufficient for immersing them, there is every reason to suppose that this was performed in some other mode. All the circumstances lead us to suppose that it was not by immersion. It was at the dead of night; in a prison; amidst much agitation; and was evidently performed in haste.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 33. Washed their stripes — Ελουσεν απο των πληγων, He washed from the stripes: i.e. he washed the blood from the wounds; and this would not require putting them into a pool, or bath, as some have ridiculously imagined.


 
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