Acts 16:35
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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.

Lexicon
[When]
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

daylight
Ἡμέρας (Hēmeras)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 2250: A day, the period from sunrise to sunset.

came,
γενομένης (genomenēs)
Verb - Aorist Participle Middle - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 1096: A prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb; to cause to be, i.e. to become, used with great latitude.

the
οἱ (hoi)
Article - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

magistrates
στρατηγοὶ (stratēgoi)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 4755: From the base of stratia and ago or hegeomai; a general, i.e. a governor, the chief of the temple-wardens.

sent
ἀπέστειλαν (apesteilan)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 649: From apo and stello; set apart, i.e. to send out literally or figuratively.

[their]
τοὺς (tous)
Article - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

officers
ῥαβδούχους (rhabdouchous)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 4465: A holder of the rods, a lictor, Roman officer, judge. From rhabdos and echo; a rod- holder, i.e. A Roman lictor.

with the order:
λέγοντες (legontes)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 3004: (a) I say, speak; I mean, mention, tell, (b) I call, name, especially in the pass., (c) I tell, command.

“Release
Ἀπόλυσον (Apolyson)
Verb - Aorist Imperative Active - 2nd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 630: From apo and luo; to free fully, i.e. relieve, release, dismiss, or let die, pardon or divorce.

those
ἐκείνους (ekeinous)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 1565: That, that one there, yonder. From ekei; that one (neuter) thing); often intensified by the article prefixed.

men.”
ἀνθρώπους (anthrōpous)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 444: A man, one of the human race. From aner and ops; man-faced, i.e. A human being.


Additional Translations
When daylight came, the magistrates sent their officers with the order: “Release those men.”

And day having come, the magistrates sent the officers, saying, "Release those men."

And when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, Let those men go.

But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, Let those men go.

And when it was day, the praetors sent the lictors, saying, Let those men go.

But when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go.

And when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, Let those men go.

In the morning the praetors sent their lictors with the order, "Release those men."

But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, "Let those men go."

And day having come, the magistrates sent the rod-bearers, saying, 'Let those men go;'
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