Acts 16:19-24

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19 But when her masters saw that their hope of ^aprofit had left, they seized ^bPaul and Silas and ^cdragged them into the marketplace before the authorities, 20 and when they had brought them to the chief magistrates, they said, “These men are throwing our city into confusion, being Jews, 21 and ^aare proclaiming customs that are not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being ^bRomans.” 22 And the crowd joined together to attack them, and the chief magistrates, tearing their garments off of them, proceeded to order them to be ^abeaten with rods. 23 And when they had inflicted them with many wounds, they threw them into prison, commanding ^athe jailer to guard them securely, 24 who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in ^athe ¹stocks.