Acts 16:19-22 ▼

19 But when her owners saw that their hopes of gain were gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them off to the magistrates in the public square.

20 Then they brought them before the praetors. "These men," they said, "are creating a great disturbance in our city.

21 They are Jews, and are teaching customs which we, as Romans, are not permitted to adopt or practise."

22 The crowd, too, joined in the outcry against them, till at length the praetors ordered them to be stripped and beaten with rods;