Acts 16:16-24 - Paul And Silas Imprisoned

¹⁶ Now as we were going to the place of prayer, a certain slave girl met us, who had a spirit of divination, and who brought her masters great gain by fortune-telling. ¹⁷ She used to follow after Paul and us, crying out again and again, "These men are servants of the most high God, who proclaimed to you the way of salvation." ¹⁸ She persisted in this for many days, until Paul, worn out, turned round and said to the spirit, "I charge you, in the name of Jesus Christ, to come out of her." In that very hour it came out of her.

¹⁹ But when her owners saw that their hopes of gain were gone, they seized Paul and Silas, and dragged them before the magistrates, into the market-place. ²⁰ Then they brought them before the praetors, saying. "These fellows are Jews, who are making a great disturbance in our city. ²¹ "They are teaching customs which it is not lawful for us as Romans to adopt or practise."

²² The crowd, too, rose up together against them, and the praetors, after having them stripped, and after ordering them to be flogged, ²³ had many lashes inflicted upon them, and put them in prison, with a charge to the jailer to keep them safe. ²⁴ On receiving so strict an order he cast them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.