Acts 16:35-37

Living Bible

³⁵ The next morning the judges sent police officers over to tell the jailer, “Let those men go!” ³⁶ So the jailer told Paul they were free to leave.

³⁷ But Paul replied, “Oh no they don’t! They have publicly beaten us without trial and jailed us—and we are Roman citizens! So now they want us to leave secretly? Never! Let them come themselves and release us!”