Acts 16:35-40

New Century Version

³⁵ The next morning, the Roman officers sent the police to tell the jailer, “Let these men go free.”

³⁶ The jailer said to Paul, “The officers have sent an order to let you go free. You can leave now. Go in peace.”

³⁷ But Paul said to the police, “They beat us in public without a trial, even though we are Roman citizens.^[a] And they threw us in jail. Now they want to make us go away quietly. No! Let them come themselves and bring us out.”

³⁸ The police told the Roman officers what Paul said. When the officers heard that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens, they were afraid. ³⁹ So they came and told Paul and Silas they were sorry and took them out of jail and asked them to leave the city. ⁴⁰ So when they came out of the jail, they went to Lydia’s house where they saw some of the believers and encouraged them. Then they left.