Acts Chapter 16 verse 34 Holy Bible
And he brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his house, having believed in God.
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And he took them into his house and gave them food, and he was full of joy, having faith in God with all his family.
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And having brought them into his house he laid the table [for them], and rejoiced with all his house, having believed in God.
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And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.
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He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God.
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having brought them also into his house, he set food before `them', and was glad with all the household, he having believed in God.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 34. - He brought them up... and set for when he had brought them... he set, A.V.; rejoiced greatly for rejoiced, A.V. (ἀγαλλιάομαι, a stronger word than χαίρειν, Matthew 5:12; 1 Peter 1:6); with all his house, having believed in God for believing in God with all his house, A.V. The word πανοικί. rendered "with all his house," occurs only here in the New Testament. But it is used by the LXX. in Exodus 1:1 and elsewhere, and by Josephus, etc. The more classical form is πανοικεσίᾳ or πανοικησίᾳ. The A.V. gives the meaning better than the R.V. The faith and the joy were both common to the jailor and his house.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(34) He set meat before them, and rejoiced.--Literally, set a table before them. The two sufferers may well have needed food. If the tumult had begun, as is probable, as they were going to the proseuclia for morning prayer, at the third hour of the day (9 A.M.), they had probably been fasting for nearly twenty-four hours. They were not likely to have made a meal when they were thrust into the dungeon. The "joy" of the meal reminds us of that noted as a chief feature of the social life of the disciples at Jerusalem in Acts 2:46. The new hope, succeeding to the blank despair, brought with it what we may well describe as a new "joy in the Holy Ghost" (Romans 14:17). The absence of the specific term of "breaking bread" excludes the idea of its having been, in the later sense of the term, an eucharistic feast; and St. Paul would probably have hesitated to admit the new convert to the Supper of the Lord without further instruction, such as we find in 1Corinthians 10:15-17; 1Corinthians 11:20-34; but the meal at which the teachers and the disciples, so strangely brought together, now sat down may, at any rate, be thought of as an agape or "feast of charity." (See Note on Jude 1:12.)
