Acts 16:22
And the populace rose up together against them: and the officers stripped off their clothes, and ordered them to be scourged.
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
In Context
21which it is not lawful for us to receive, nor practise, who are Romans.
Cross References
Matthew 10:17Beware of evil men; for they will deliver you up to their councils, and will scourge you in their synagogues.
Acts 5:40So they took his advice, and having called for the apostles and scourged them, they charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
Acts 17:5But the unbelieving Jews being filled with envy, collected some loose profligate fellows, and making a tumult set all the city in an uproar: and assaulting Jason's house, they sought for them in order to bring them out to the populace.
Acts 19:28Hearing this and being filled with rage, they cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
Acts 22:22And they heard him to this word, and then they exalted their voice, saying, Away with such a fellow from the earth; for it is not fit that he should live.
2 Corinthians 11:23so am I: are they ministers of Christ? (if I may speak as a fool) I am more: in labors more abundant, in stripes far exceeding, in prisons more frequently, and often even in deaths.
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 →