Topic
Sergeants
2 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1897 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Acts 16:35Easton
And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go.
- Acts 16:38Easton
And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans.
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 2 references
Acts 16:35, 38 (R.V., “lictors”), officers who attended the magistrates and assisted them in the execution of justice.
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.