Acts 16:19-24

19When her owners realized that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities.

20Bringing them before the chief magistrates, they said, “These men are seriously disturbing our city. They are Jews

21and are promoting customs that are not legal for us as Romans to adopt or practice.”

22The crowd joined in the attack against them, and the chief magistrates stripped off their clothes and ordered them to be beaten with rods.

23After they had severely flogged them, they threw them in jail, ordering the jailer to guard them carefully.

24Receiving such an order, he put them into the inner prison and secured their feet in the stocks.