Acts 19:38-40

³⁸Therefore, if Demetrius and his fellow-workmen want to accuse anyone about anything bad, they should do it in the right way. There are courts that you can go to when you want to accuse someone, and there are judges there who have been appointed by the government { whom the government has appointed}. You can accuse anyone there.

³⁹But if you want to ask about something else, you should ask for other officials to resolve it when those officials legally assemble.

⁴⁰And this is certainly not a legal meeting! Resolve this legally because, if we(inc) do not, I am afraid that the governor will hear about all this noise that you have made and will say that we (inc) were trying to rebel against the government. If he would ask me what you were all shouting about, I would not be able to give him an answer.”