Topic
Jailer
1 passage cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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- Acts 16:23Easton
And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 1 references
(of Philippi), Acts 16:23. The conversion of the Roman jailer, a man belonging to a class “insensible as a rule and hardened by habit, and also disposed to despise the Jews, who were the bearers of the message of the gospel,” is one of those cases which illustrate its universality and power.
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.