ACTS 16:15-24

¹⁵And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.

¹⁶And it came to pass, as we were going to the place of prayer, that a certain maid having a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying.

¹⁷The same following after Paul and us cried out, saying, These men are servants of the Most High God, which proclaim unto you the way of salvation.

¹⁸And this she did for many days. But Paul, being sore troubled, turned and said to the spirit, I charge thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And it came out that very hour.

¹⁹But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they laid hold on Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers,

²⁰and when they had brought them unto the magistrates, they said, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city,

²¹and set forth customs which it is not lawful for us to receive, or to observe, being Romans.

²²And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent their garments off them, and commanded to beat them with rods.

²³And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:

²⁴who, having received such a charge, cast them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.