Teks -- Acts 16:39 (NET)

16:39 and came and apologized to them. After they brought them out, they asked them repeatedly to leave the city.

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

Robertson: Act 16:39 - They feared

They feared ( ephobēthēsan ).

This is the explanation. They became frightened for their own lives when they saw what they had done to Roman citizens.

Robertson: Act 16:39 - They asked

They asked ( ērōtōn ).

Imperfect active of erōtaō . They kept on begging them to leave for fear of further trouble. The colonists in Philippi would turn against the praetors if they learned the facts, proud as they were of being citizens. This verb in the Koiné is often used as here to make a request and not just to ask a question.

JFB: Act 16:39-40 - And they came

In person.

JFB: Act 16:39-40 - and besought them

Not to complain of them. What a contrast this suppliant attitude of the preachers of Philippi to the tyrannical air with which they had the day before treated the preachers! (See Isa 60:14; Rev 3:9).

JFB: Act 16:39-40 - brought them out

Conducted them forth from the prison into the street, as insisted on.

JFB: Act 16:39-40 - and desired

"requested."

JFB: Act 16:39-40 - them to depart out of the city

Perhaps fearing again to excite the populace.

TSK: Act 16:39 - came // and brought // and desired

came : Exo 11:8; Isa 45:14, Isa 49:23, Isa 60:14; Mic 7:9, Mic 7:10; Rev 3:9

and brought : Dan 6:16, Dan 6:23

and desired : Mat 8:34; Mar 5:17

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

Poole: Act 16:39

Two things the magistrates had to desire of them:

1. That they would excuse the wrong done unto them, which they feared lest the Romans might revenge.

2. That, to avoid further mischiefs, (as they thought), they would leave the city. But the words here used do signify, also, that they comforted them, as well as besought, or exhorted them: both by word and deed they sought to make amends for the injury they had offered unto them; and desired them to depart for their own safety, lest the people should express their rage and madness against them.

Gill: Act 16:39 - And they came // and besought them // and brought them out // and desired them to depart out of the city

And they came,.... To the prison in person, as Paul had insisted on they should:

and besought them; that they would put up the injury that had been done them, and quietly depart out of prison:

and brought them out; that is, out of prison; took them by the arms, and led them out, as they had put them in, which was what the apostle required:

and desired them to depart out of the city; lest there should be any further disturbance about them: in Beza's most ancient copy, and in another manuscript copy, this verse is read thus, and which more clearly explains the passage;

"and they came with many friends unto the prison, and desired them to go out, saying, we are not ignorant of your case, that you are righteous men; and bringing them out they besought them, saying, go out of this city, lest they (the people) should turn again upon you, crying against you;''

which looks as if they took along with them some persons, who were friends to the apostles as well as to them, to prevail upon them to depart quietly; and they excuse themselves by attributing what had passed to popular rage and fury, and pretend they consulted the safety of the apostles, by desiring them to go out of the city.