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Jailor

　　The Authorized Version adheres to the term ‘jailor’ in all three verses. The person so designated occupied the position of supreme authority as governor of the prison (cf. φύλαξ, Acts 5:23; Acts 12:6; Authorized Version , 1907, p. 113). Nor does it follow that the ‘we’ section ends with v. 24, because the first person is no longer used. After his separation from St. Paul and Silas, owing to their arrest and imprisonment, the narrator would, of necessity, proceed to describe the subsequent events, when he was no longer in their company, in the third person. The presence of the miraculous element, if the earthquake is to be so regarded, in no way militates against this assumption, for the ‘we sections are full of the supernatural’ (Harnack, Acts of the Apostles, Eng. translation