Acts 16:33-38

³³He took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes, and was immediately immersed, he and all his household.

³⁴He brought them up into his house and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly with all his household, having believed in God.

³⁵But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, “Let those men go.”

³⁶The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, “The magistrates have sent to let you go; now therefore come out and go in peace.”

³⁷But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us publicly without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do they now release us secretly? No, most certainly, but let them come themselves and bring us out!”

³⁸The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,