Acts 16:22
And a great company was collected against them. Then the prefects rent their garments, and commanded to scourge them.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
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Matthew 10:17And beware of men; for they will deliver you over to the tribunals, and will scourge you in their synagogues.
Acts 5:40And they called the legates, and scourged them, and commanded them not to teach in the name of Jesus, and dismissed them.
Acts 17:5But the Jews were indignant, and gathered to themselves evil men from the marketplace of the city, and formed a great mob; and they alarmed the city, and came and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to draw them from it, and to deliver them up to the mob.
Acts 19:28And when they heard these things they were filled with wrath; and they cried out, and said: Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
Acts 22:22And when they had heard Paul as far as this sentence, they raised their voice, and cried out: Away with such a man from the earth! for he ought not to live!
2 Corinthians 11:23If they are ministers of the Messiah, (in defect of understanding, I say it,) I am superior to them: in toils more than they, in stripes more than they, in bonds more than they, in deaths many times.
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 →