Acts 16:22
And the multitude rose up together against them; and the magistrates stripped off their clothes, and gave command to beat them with rods.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
21and they teach customs which it is not lawful for us, who are Romans, to receive or to observe.
Cross References
Matthew 10:17But beware of men: for they will deliver you to the councils, and scourge you in their synagogues;
Acts 5:40And they were persuaded by him; and when they had called the apostles in and scourged them, they commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
Acts 17:5But the unbelieving Jews, taking with them some evil men, who were loungers about the markets, and collecting a mob, set the city in an uproar; and having assaulted the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.
Acts 19:28When they heard this, they were full of anger, and cried out, saying: Great is Diana of the Ephesians!
Acts 22:22And they heard him to this word, and lifted up their voice, saying: Away with such a man from the earth! for it is not fit that he should live.
2 Corinthians 11:23Are they ministers of Christ? (I say it foolishly,) I am above them. In labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often.
Matthew Henry on Acts 16:17-25
The Expulsion of an Evil Spirit; Persecution of Philippi. 16 And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying: 17 The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which show unto us the way of salvation. 18 And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he… Read the whole commentary →