Acts 16:35-40

New King James Version

Paul Refuses to Depart Secretly

³⁵ And when it was day, the magistrates sent the ^[a]officers, saying, “Let those men go.”

³⁶ So the keeper of the prison reported these words to Paul, saying, “The magistrates have sent to let you go. Now therefore depart, and go in peace.”

³⁷ But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us openly, uncondemned ^(A)Romans, and have thrown us into prison. And now do they put us out secretly? No indeed! Let them come themselves and get us out.”

³⁸ And the officers told these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans. ³⁹ Then they came and pleaded with them and brought them out, and ^(B)asked them to depart from the city. ⁴⁰ So they went out of the prison ^(C)and entered the house of Lydia; and when they had seen the brethren, they encouraged them and departed.