19 But when her masters saw that their hope of (A)profit was (a)gone, they seized (B)Paul and Silas and (C)dragged them into the market place before the authorities, 20 and when they had brought them to the chief magistrates, they said, “These men are throwing our city into confusion, being Jews, 21 and (D)are proclaiming customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being (E)Romans.”

Footnotes:

a. Acts 16:19: ['Lit ', gone out]

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