¹⁹ But when her masters saw that their hope of ^(A)profit was suddenly gone, they seized ^(B)Paul and Silas and ^(C)dragged them into the marketplace before the authorities, ²⁰ and when they had brought them to the chief magistrates, they said, “These men, Jews as they are, are causing our city trouble, ²¹ and they ^(D)are proclaiming customs that are not lawful for us to accept or to practice, since we are ^(E)Romans.”

Paul and Silas Imprisoned

²² The crowd joined in an attack against them, and the chief magistrates tore their ^[a]robes off them and proceeded to order ^[b]them to be ^(F)beaten with rods. ²³ When they had struck them with many blows, they threw them into prison, commanding ^(G)the jailer to guard them securely; ^24 [c]and he, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in ^(H)the ^[d]stocks.