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Suddenly; how soon is prayer answered, when the fulness of time is come! So nigh is God unto all that call upon him, Psa_34:17 145:18.
There was a great earthquake; an earthquake did usually precede some wonderful matter, as Mat_28:2. And although God could have delivered these his servants without an earthquake, yet, to show the more that their deliverance was his work, and it was no artifice or force of their own, he manifested his power after this manner.
Every one’s bands were loosed; either by the earthquake, or some secret power of an angel, or by God himself immediately, that the apostles and others might know that the souls of men should be loosed and set free by them, whose bodies for that purpose were now freed by God.