Acts 16:24

16:24 Receiving such orders, he threw them in the inner cell ¹  and fastened their feet in the stocks. ² 

Acts 27:31

27:31 Paul said to the centurion ³  and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay with the ship, you ⁴  cannot be saved.”

[16:24]  ¹ tn Or “prison.”

[16:24]  ² tn L&N 6.21 has “stocks” for εἰς τὸ ξύλον (ei" to xulon) here, as does BDAG 685 s.v. ξύλον 2.b. However, it is also possible (as mentioned in L&N 18.12) that this does not mean “stocks” but a block of wood (a log or wooden column) in the prison to which prisoners’ feet were chained or tied. Such a possibility is suggested by v. 26, where the “bonds” (“chains”?) of the prisoners loosened.

[27:31]  ³ sn See the note on the word centurion in 10:1.

[27:31]  ⁴ sn The pronoun you is plural in Greek.