What does Acts 16:23 mean?

Acts 16:23 highlights themes such as faith and obedience when read in context.

How should I apply Acts 16:23 today?

Read the surrounding passage, compare related cross references, and turn the verse into a short prayer and concrete action.

And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:

21And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans.

22And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them.

23And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:

24Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.

25And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.

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