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Paul and Silas released

Acts 16:35-40

Passage · Acts 16:35-40

16:35But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, “Let those men go.”

16:36The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, “The magistrates have sent to let you go; now therefore come out and go in peace.”

16:37But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us publicly without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do they now release us secretly? No, most certainly, but let them come themselves and bring us out!”

16:38The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,

16:39and they came and begged them. When they had brought them out, they asked them to depart from the city.

16:40They went out of the prison and entered into Lydia’s house. When they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them, then departed.