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Acts 16:36

“The jailer informed Paul: “The magistrates have sent orders to release you. Now you may go on your way in peace.””

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³⁴Then he brought them into his home and set a meal before them. So he and all his household rejoiced that they had come to believe in God.

³⁵When daylight came, the magistrates sent their officers with the order: “Release those men.”

³⁶The jailer informed Paul: “The magistrates have sent orders to release you. Now you may go on your way in peace.”

³⁷But Paul said to the officers, “They beat us publicly without a trial and threw us into prison, even though we are Roman citizens. And now do they want to send us away secretly? Absolutely not! Let them come themselves and escort us out!”

³⁸So the officers relayed this message to the magistrates, who were alarmed to hear that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens.

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