Acts 16:20-22

New American Standard Bible 1995

²⁰ and when they had brought them to the chief magistrates, they said, “These men are throwing our city into confusion, being Jews, ²¹ and ^(A)are proclaiming customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being ^(B)Romans.”

Paul and Silas Imprisoned

²² The crowd rose up together against them, and the chief magistrates tore their ^[a]robes off them and proceeded to order ^[b]them to be ^(C)beaten with rods.