COMMENTARY

Acts 16:16-34
The experience of Paul and Silas in the Philippian jail. Paul's exorcizing a demon from a slave girl leads to a riot formented by her owners because their business was threatened. Paul and Silas had their clothes torn from them, were beaten, and then thrown into solitary confinement with their feet in the stocks in the Philippian jail. While singing hymns at midnight, an earthquake occurred and the jailer, scared to death, asked how he could be saved. He and his family were baptized. Paul and Silas were comforted and fed by the jailor.

Acts 7:55-60
Paul receives a call to Macedonia. Stephen becomes the first Christian martyr.

Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20
The ascended Christ promises to return soon. The exalted, risen, and ascended Christ is heard in this peric…