Acts 16:35-38

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

³⁶So the jailer reported these words to Paul, “The magistrates have sent to release you; so now you can leave and go in peace.”

³⁷But Paul said to them: “After severely beating us in public, although we were uncondemned Romans, they threw us into prison, and now do they toss us out on the sly? No way! Rather, let them come themselves and escort us out!”

³⁸So the officers reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans;