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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Acts 16:39 - 16:39
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And they came - in person.
and besought them - not to complain of them. What a contrast this suppliant attitude of the preachers of Philippi to the tyrannical air with which they had the day before treated the preachers! (See Isa 60:14; Rev 3:9).
brought them out - conducted them forth from the prison into the street, as insisted on.
and desired - “requested.”
them to depart out of the city - perhaps fearing again to excite the populace.