Acts 16:22
And the multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates, tearing off their clothes, commanded to beat them with rods;
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
21and they teach customs which it is not lawful for us Romans to receive or observe.
Cross References
Matthew 10:17But beware of men. For they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;
Acts 5:40And they were persuaded by him; and having called the apostles, they beat them, and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and released them.
Acts 17:5But the unbelieving Jews, taking with them certain bad men of the idlers in the market-place, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar; and having come to the house of Jason, they endeavored to bring them out to the people;
Acts 19:28And hearing this they became full of wrath, and kept crying out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians!
Acts 22:22And they listened to him as far as this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth! for it was not fit that he should live.
2 Corinthians 11:23Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as beside myself,) I am more; in labors more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, 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 →