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# General Information:
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This is the last event in the story of Paul and Silas in Philippi ([Acts 16:12](../16/12.md)).
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# Now
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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 ](../16/16.md ).
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# sent word to the guards
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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]])
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# sent word
Here "sent" means the magistrates told someone to go tell the guards their message.
# Let those men go
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"Release those men" or "Allow those men to leave"
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