Acts 16:22
Then the crowd rose up together against Paul and Silas; the magistrates tore their garments off them and commanded them to be beaten with rods.
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21They proclaim customs that are not lawful for Romans to accept or practice.”
Cross References
Matthew 10:17Watch out for people! They will deliver you up to councils, and they will whip you in their synagogues.
Acts 5:40Then they called the apostles in and beat them and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
Acts 17:5But the unbelieving Jews, being moved with jealousy, took certain wicked men from the marketplace, gathered a crowd together, and set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they wanted to bring Paul and Silas out to the people.
Acts 19:28When they heard this, they were filled with anger and cried out, saying, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians.”
Acts 22:22They listened to him until he said this. Then they shouted and said, “Away with such a fellow from the earth, for it is not right that he should live.”
2 Corinthians 11:23Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as though I were out of my mind.) I am more. I have been in even more hard work, in far more prisons, in beatings beyond measure, in facing many dangers of death.
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 →