Acts 16:35-38

³⁵In the morning the Magistrates sent the police with an order for the men to be discharged.

³⁶The jailer told Paul of his instructions. “The Magistrates have sent an order for your discharge,” he said, “so you had better leave the place at once and go quietly away.”

³⁷But Paul's answer to them was, “They have flogged us in public without trial, though we are Roman citizens, and they have put us in prison, and now they are for sending us out secretly! No, indeed! Let them come and take us out themselves.”

³⁸The police reported his words to the Magistrates, who, on hearing that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens, were alarmed,