Acts 16:35-40

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

³⁶The jailer reported the words to Paul, saying, “The magistrates have sent word to me to let you go. Now therefore come out, and go in peace.”

³⁷But Paul said to them, “They have publicly beaten us without a trial, even through we are Romans citizens—and they threw us into prison. Do they now want to send us away secretly? No! Let them come themselves and lead us out.”

³⁸The guards reported these words to the magistrates, and when they heard that Paul and Silas were Romans, they were afraid.

³⁹The magistrates came and apologized to them and brought them out, asking them them to go away from the city.

⁴⁰So Paul and Silas went out of the prison and came to the house of Lydia. When Paul and Silas saw the brothers, they encouraged them and then departed from the city.