3. Persecuted
<p><b>Acts 16:19-24 (NASB) </b>
<sup>19 </sup> But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the market place before the authorities,
<sup>20 </sup> and when they had brought them to the chief magistrates, they said, "These men are throwing our city into confusion, being Jews,
<sup>21 </sup> and are proclaiming customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans."
<sup>22 </sup> The crowd rose up together against them, and the chief magistrates tore their robes off them and proceeded to order <i>them</i> to be beaten with rods.
<sup>23 </sup> When they had struck them with many blows, they threw them into prison, commanding the jailer to guard them securely;
<sup>24 </sup> and he, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.
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