Acts 16:30 (YLT)

Passage

and having brought them forth, said, `Sirs, what must I do--that I may be saved?'

Nearby Context

Acts 16:28 and Paul cried out with a loud voice, saying, `Thou mayest not do thyself any harm, for we are all here.'

Acts 16:29 And, having asked for a light, he sprang in, and trembling he fell down before Paul and Silas,

Acts 16:30 and having brought them forth, said, `Sirs, what must I do--that I may be saved?'

Acts 16:31 and they said, `Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved--thou and thy house;'

Acts 16:32 and they spake to him the word of the Lord, and to all those in his household;

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "saved", "having", "brought", "forth", "said", "sirs", "must", and "do--that". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "saved" and "having", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 29's "And having asked for a light he..." into verse 31's "and they said Believe on the Lord...", so "saved" and "having" belong inside that flow. In Acts context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "saved" and "having" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.