Acts 16:24 Meaning and Explanation
“Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.”
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Read Full Chapter →Taking no chances, the jailer puts them in the innermost cell and fastens their feet in the stocks.
What Does Acts 16:24 Mean?
The jailer goes beyond his orders: the inner prison, dark and close, and wooden stocks that clamped the legs fast, often forced wide apart to add pain to confinement. Bleeding from the rods, Paul and Silas cannot even shift their weight.
Maximum security is about to meet a power no walls can hold. The men fastened in wood at midnight will soon stand free, while their keeper discovers his own deeper imprisonment and begs to know the way out. No cell is so deep that the purposes of God cannot reach it.
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What does Acts 16:24 mean?
Taking no chances, the jailer puts them in the innermost cell and fastens their feet in the stocks.