Acts 16:20-22

²⁰Her bosses said to the judges, “These men are making a lot of trouble for everyone in our town. They are Jews,

²¹and they are telling people to do things that our Roman law says are wrong.”

²²A lot of other people there joined those bosses and started blaming Paul and Silas. Then the Roman bosses told their soldiers, “Rip the shirts off Paul and Silas and hit them with sticks.”