Acts 16:22
And the multitude also rose up against them: and the magistrates tore the clothes off of them, and commanded that they be beaten with rods.
Revised King James New Testament
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In Context
21And they teach customs which are not lawful for us Romans to accept, or to 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 agreed with him: and when they had called in the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
Acts 17:5But the Jews who did not believe were moved with envy, and took certain wicked fellows of the rabble, and gathered a crowd, and set all the city in an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.
Acts 19:28And when they heard this, they were filled with rage, and cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
Acts 22:22And until this word they listened to him, then they lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.
2 Corinthians 11:23Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more so; in labours more abundant, in beatings beyond number, in prison more frequently, in danger of death 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 →