# General Information:

This is the last event in the story of Paul and Silas in Philippi. (See: [Acts 16:12](./11.md))

# Now

This word is used here to mark a break in the main story line. Here Luke tells the last event in the story that started in [Acts 16:16](./16.md).

# sent word to the guards

Here "word" stands for "message" or "command." Alternate translation: "sent a message to the guards" or "sent a command to the guards" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])

# sent word

Here "sent" means the magistrates told someone to go tell the guards their message.

# Let those men go

"Release those men" or "Allow those men to leave"