Acts 16:22
And the people ran together against them; and the magistrates rending off their clothes, commanded them to be beaten with rods.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
21And preach a fashion which it is not lawful for us to receive nor observe, being Romans.
Cross References
Matthew 10:17But beware of men. For they will deliver you up in councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues.
Acts 5:40And calling in the apostles, after they had scourged them, they charged them that they should not speak at all in the name of Jesus; and they dismissed them.
Acts 17:5But the Jews, moved with envy, and taking unto them some wicked men of the vulgar sort, and making a tumult, set the city in an uproar; and besetting Jason's house, sought to bring them out unto the people.
Acts 19:28Having heard these things, they were full of anger, and cried out, saying: Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
Acts 22:22And they heard him until this word, and then lifted up their voice, saying: Away with such an one from the earth; for it is not fit that he should live.
2 Corinthians 11:23They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as one less wise): I am more; in many more labours, in prisons more frequently, in stripes above measure, 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 →