Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
And they came—in person.
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 Isaiah 60:14; Revelation 3:9).
brought them out—conducted them forth from the prison into the street, as insisted on.
and desired—"requested."
them to depart out of the city—perhaps fearing again to excite the populace.
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