Acts Chapter 16 verse 25 Holy Bible

ASV Acts 16:25

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns unto God, and the prisoners were listening to them;
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BBE Acts 16:25

But about the middle of the night, Paul and Silas were making prayers and songs to God in the hearing of the prisoners;
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DARBY Acts 16:25

And at midnight Paul and Silas, in praying, were praising God with singing, and the prisoners listened to them.
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KJV Acts 16:25

And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.
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WEB Acts 16:25

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
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YLT Acts 16:25

And at midnight Paul and Silas praying, were singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were hearing them,
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Acts 16 : 25 Bible Verse Songs

Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 25. - But about for and at, A.V.; were praying and singing hymns for prayed and sang praises, A.V.; were listening to(imperfect) for heard, A.V. Prayed, etc. Their proseuche was now the dungeon and the sleeks. But, though they were but two, the Lord was in the midst of them, according to his promise, and manifested his gracious presence in the striking deliverance which follows. Were listening to them; ἐπακροάομαι, found only here in the New Testament. But the substantive, ἐπακρόασις, hearkening ("to hearken," A.V.), occurs in the LXX. of 1 Samuel 15:22. What a scene I The dark inner dungeon; the prisoners fast in the stocks, their backs still bleeding and smarting from the stripes; the companionship of criminals and outcasts of society; the midnight hour; and not groans, or curses, or complaints, but joyous trustful songs of praise ringing through the vault! while their companions in the jail listened with astonishment to the heavenly sound in that place of shame wad sorrow.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(25) And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises.--Better, praying, they Were singing hymns, the Greek expressing one act rather than two. The act was, we may believe, habitual, and they would not intermit it even in the dungeon, and fastened as they were, so that they could not kneel. The hymn may have been one of the prayer-psalms of David, or possibly one of those, of which Pliny speaks in his letters, and which may well have been in use half a century earlier, in which men offered adoration to Christ as God (Epist. x. 96). The words of Tertullian to the martyrs of his time may well be quoted: Nihil crus sentit in nervo quum animus in caelo est; Etsi corpus detinetur, omnia spiritui patent--"The leg feels not the stocks when the mind is in heaven. Though the body is held fast, all things lie open in the spirit" (ad Mart. c. 2).And the prisoners heard them.--Better, were listening eagerly, the kind of listening which men give to a musical performance. Never before, we may be sure, had those outcasts and criminals heard such sounds in such a place. For the most part those vaults echoed only with wild curses and foul jests.