Acts 16:35-37

Expanded Bible

³⁵ The next morning, the ·Roman officers [magistrates] sent the police to tell the jailer, “Let these men go free.”

³⁶ The jailer ·said [^Lreported these words] to Paul, “The ·officers [magistrates] have sent an order to let you go free. You can leave now. Go in peace.”

³⁷ But Paul said to ·the police [^Lthem], “They beat us in public ·without a trial [^Luncondemned], even though we are Roman citizens [^CRoman law stated that citizens could not be beaten without a trial]. And they threw us in ·jail [prison]. Now they want to ·make us go away [get rid of us; throw us out] ·quietly [in secret]. No! Let them come themselves and bring us out.”