<p>16:38 <i>And the officers reported these words to the magistrates</i>- As the jailor reported words in :36. All this sending of verbal messages by the hand of messengers would mean that in accordance with Paul's intention, the word about the situation was spreading around.</p>
<p><em>And they feared when they heard that they were Romans</em>- See on 16:35 <em>Let those men go.</em></p>