Acts 16:16-24 - Paul And Silas Imprisoned

¹⁶ And when we went to the proseuche, a certain female servant having a spirit, a diviner, met us, who brought her masters much gain by divining. ¹⁷ She following Paul and us, cried, saying, These men are servants of the Most High God, who declare to us the way of salvation; ¹⁸ and this she did for many days. And Paul being grieved turned around and said to the spirit, I command you, in the name of Jesus Christ, to come out of her. And it came out of her in that hour.

¹⁹ And her masters seeing that the hope of their gain was gone, seizing Paul and Silas dragged them to the market, to the rulers, ²⁰ and bringing them before the prefects said, These men, being Jews, greatly trouble the city, ²¹ and preach customs which it is not lawful for us, being Romans, to receive or observe.

²² And the multitude came together against them, and the prefects tearing off their clothes gave orders to beat them with rods, ²³ and having inflicted many blows on them cast them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely; ²⁴ who, having received such a charge, cast them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.