Acts 16:36-38

New Matthew Bible

³⁶ The keeper of the prison told this to Paul, saying, The magistrates have sent word to release you; now therefore take your leave, and go in peace.

³⁷ Then Paul said to them, They have beaten us openly, without a trial, for all that we are Romans, and have cast us into prison. And now would they send us away quietly? No, not so, but let them come themselves and get us out.

³⁸ When the officers told these words to the magistrates, they feared, hearing that Paul and Silas were Romans,