The Acts of the Apostles

206 THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
xvi. 29. aiTTja-a?, a strange change of subject.
xvi. 30. No motive is given for the jailor's rever-
ence for his two prisoners, and no motive at all for
his appealing cry to them, seeing that he could not
have known that the miracle had been wrought on
their behalf.
xvi. 32. The abrupt appearance of the jailor''s
family is unexplained.
xvi. 33. It seems strange that the baptism should
have taken place at once in the prison.
xvi. 35. No motive is given for the action of the
a-TparriyoL They issue a sudden command for the
release, though no hint is given that they were influ-
enced by anything that had happened during the
night. The whole passage, verses 24—34 (inclusive),
looks like an interpolation.
xvi. 37. irpos avTovs—though the lictors did not
themselves go in to the prisoners but sent a message
by the jailor.
xvii. 3. Passage into oratw directa.
xvii. 5. Prolepsis. The house of Jason is men-
tioned, though it is not until verse 7 that we learn
that Jason had received the missionaries into his house.
xvii. 9. Xapovreg aireXvo-av—change of subject.
xvii. 15. «y rayj-arra—but St. Luke does not tell
us that the command was not carried out.
xvii. 18. 01