Teks -- Acts 16:34 (NET)

16:34 The jailer brought them into his house and set food before them, and he rejoiced greatly that he had come to believe in God, together with his entire household.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Robertson: Act 16:34 - He brought them up

He brought them up ( anagagōn ).

Second aorist active participle of anagō . It looks as if his house was above the prison. The baptism apparently took place in the pool or tank in which he bathed Paul and Silas (Deuteronomy Wette) or the rectangular basin ( impluvium ) in the court for receiving the rain or even in a swimming pool or bath (kolumbēthra ) found within the walls of the prison (Kuinoel). Meyer: "Perhaps the water was in the court of the house; and the baptism was that of immersion, which formed an essential part of the symbolism of the act."

Robertson: Act 16:34 - Set meat

Set meat ( parethēken trapezan ).

Set a "table"before them with food on it. They had probably had no food for a day.

Robertson: Act 16:34 - With all his house

With all his house ( panoikei ).

Adverb, once in Plato, though usually panoikiāi . In lxx, but here alone in the N.T. It is in an amphibolous position and can be taken either with "rejoiced"(ēgalliasato ) or "having believed"(pepisteukōs , perfect active participle, permanent belief), coming between them. The whole household (family, warden, slaves) heard the word of God, believed in the Lord Jesus, made confession, were baptized, and rejoiced. Furneaux considers the haste in baptism here "precipitate"as in the baptism of the eunuch. But why delay?

Vincent: Act 16:34 - Brought

Brought ( ἀναγαγών )

Lit., " brought up (ἀνά ) . " His house would seem to have been above the court of the prison where they were. See on took, Act 16:33.

Vincent: Act 16:34 - Believing

Believing ( πεπιστευκὼς )

More correctly, having believed; assigning the reason for his joy: " in that he had believed."

Wesley: Act 16:34 - He set a table before them and rejoiced

Faith makes a man joyful, prudent, liberal.

JFB: Act 16:31-34 - Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved

The brevity, simplicity, and directness of this reply are, in the circumstances, singularly beautiful. Enough at that moment to have his faith directed simply to the Saviour, with the assurance that this would bring to his soul the needed and sought salvation--the how being a matter for after teaching.

JFB: Act 16:31-34 - thou shalt be saved, and thy house

(See on Luk 19:10).

JFB: Act 16:34 - And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them and rejoiced, believing

That is, as the expression implies, "rejoiced because he had believed."

JFB: Act 16:34 - in God

As a converted heathen, for the faith of a Jew would not be so expressed [ALFORD].

JFB: Act 16:34 - with all his house

The wondrous change on himself and the whole house filling his soul with joy. "This is the second house which, in the Roman city of Philippi, has been consecrated by faith in Jesus, and of which the inmates, by hospitable entertainment of the Gospel witnesses, have been sanctified to a new beginning of domestic life, pleasing and acceptable to God. The first result came to pass in consequence simply of the preaching of the Gospel; the second was the fruit of a testimony sealed and ennobled by suffering" [BAUMGARTEN].

Clarke: Act 16:34 - He set meat before them

He set meat before them - They were sufficiently exhausted, and needed refreshment; nor had the apostles any such inherent miraculous power as could prevent them from suffering through hunger, or enable them to heal their own grounds. As they were the instruments of bringing health to his soul, he became the instrument of health to their bodies. Genuine faith in Christ will always be accompanied with benevolence and humanity, and every fruit that such dispositions can produce. The jailor believed - brought them into his house - washed their stripes - and set meat before them.

Calvin: Act 16:34 - He rejoiceth that he believed

34.He rejoiceth that he believed The external profession of faith was before commended in the jailer; now the inward fruit thereof is described. When he did lodge the apostles, − ²²⁵ and was not afraid of punishment, but did courteously entertain them in his own house, otherwise than he was enjoined by the magistrate, he did testify that his faith was not idle. And that joy whereof Luke speaketh in this place is a singular good thing, which every man hath from his faith. There is no great torment than an evil conscience; for the unbelievers, though the seek by all means to bring themselves into a certain amazedness, yet because they have no peace with God, they must needs quake and tremble. But admit they perceive not their present torments, yea, they rage and play the madmen through mad and unbridled licentiousness; yet are they never quiet, neither do they enjoy quiet joy. − ²²⁶ Therefore, sincere and quiet stable joy proceedeth from faith alone, when we perceive that God is merciful to us. In this respect, Zacharias saith, “Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Sion, behold, they King cometh.” Yea, this effect is everywhere in the Scripture attributed to faith, that it maketh the souls joyful. Therefore, let us know that faith is not a vain or dead imagination, but a lively sealing [sense] of the grace of God, which bringeth perfect joy by reason of the certainty of salvation, whereof it is meet that the wicked be void, who do both fly from the God of peace, and disturb all righteousness.

TSK: Act 16:34 - when // and rejoiced

when : Luk 5:29, Luk 19:6; Phi 4:17; 1Th 4:9, 1Th 4:10; Phm 1:7; Jam 2:14-17; 1Jo 3:18

and rejoiced : Act 16:27-29, Act 2:46, Act 8:39; Isa 12:1-3, Isa 55:12, Isa 57:17, Isa 57:18, Isa 58:7-11, Isa 61:10; Luk 15:22-25, Luk 15:32; Rom 5:2, Rom 5:11, Rom 15:13; Gal 5:22; Phi 4:4; 1Pe 1:6-8

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Act 16:34 - Into his house // He set meat before them // Rejoiced

Into his house which was close unto, or a separate part of, the prison, into which they did ascend, being before in a low dungeon.

He set meat before them Paul and Silas had been long fasting, and in any season of the night it was a mercy to them to have a table spread for them.

Rejoiced finding the effects of his faith, peace with God, and joy in the Holy Ghost; which was not a little augmented, in that he had his family admitted into the covenant of God’ s grace, they also believing, and being baptized.

Gill: Act 16:34 - And when he had brought them into his house // he set meat before them // and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house

And when he had brought them into his house,.... After he and his family had been baptized, either in the pool in the prison, or in the river near the city of Philippi:

he set meat before them; he spread a table for them, with provisions to refresh them after all their fatigue; partly by stripes and imprisonment, partly by the exercises of prayer and praise, and also by the ministration of the word, and the administration of the ordinance of baptism to the jailer and his family:

and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house; he and his rejoiced at the good news, of peace and pardon, righteousness, life, and salvation, which the Gospel brought unto them; they rejoiced in Christ Jesus, in his person, offices, grace and righteousness; believing in him who is truly and properly God, they were filled with joy unspeakable, and full of glory; with a joy that always attends true faith, and which a stranger intermeddles not with; and they rejoiced that they were admitted to the ordinance of Christ, and were among his baptized followers; so the eunuch, after baptism, went on his way rejoicing, Act 8:39.