A moment in scripture
Acts 16:37
But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.
The surrounding passage
- Acts 16:35
And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go.
- Acts 16:36
And the keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul, The magistrates have sent to let you go: now therefore depart, and go in peace.
- Acts 16:38
And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans.
- Acts 16:39
And they came and besought them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the city.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.