Acts 16:35
Good News Translation
The next morning the Roman authorities sent police officers with the order, "Let those men go."

New Revised Standard Version
When morning came, the magistrates sent the police, saying, “Let those men go.”

Contemporary English Version
The next morning the officials sent some police with orders for the jailer to let Paul and Silas go.

New American Bible
But when it was day, the magistrates sent the lictors with the order, “Release those men.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when the day was come, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying: Let those men go.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when the day was come, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying: Let those men go.

Acts 4:21 But they, threatening, sent them away, not finding how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified what had been done, in that which had come to pass.

Acts 5:40 And calling in the apostles, after they had scourged them, they charged them that they should not speak at all in the name of Jesus. And they dismissed them.

Psalm 76:10 For the thought of man shall give praise to thee: and the remainders of the thought shall keep holiday to thee.

Jeremiah 5:22 Will not you then fear me, saith the Lord: and will you not repent at my presence? I have set the sand a bound for the sea, an everlasting ordinance, which it shall not pass over: and the waves thereof shall toss themselves, and shall not prevail: they shall swell, and shall not pass over it.

Context
An Official Apology
34And when he had brought them into his own house, he laid the table for them: and rejoiced with all his house, believing God. 35And when the day was come, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying: Let those men go. 36And the keeper of the prison told these words to Paul: The magistrates have sent to let you go. Now therefore depart. And go in peace.…
Cross References
Luke 12:11
And when they shall bring you into the synagogues and to magistrates and powers, be not solicitous how or what you shall answer, or what you shall say.

Acts 16:34
And when he had brought them into his own house, he laid the table for them: and rejoiced with all his house, believing God.

Acts 16:36
And the keeper of the prison told these words to Paul: The magistrates have sent to let you go. Now therefore depart. And go in peace.

Acts 16:38
And let us out themselves. And the serjeants told these words to the magistrates. And they were afraid: hearing that they were Romans.

Acts 16:34
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