Acts 16:35-40 - Paul And Silas Receive An Official Apology
35 But when it was day, the magistrates sent the lictors, saying, Set those men at large.
36 Then the jailor told these words to Paul, That the magistrates had sent to set them at liberty: now therefore, [said he,] get ye out, and pursue your journey in peace.
37 But Paul said to them, They have beaten us publicly, uncondemned, men that are Roman citizens, and have cast us into prison; and would they now clandestinely send us away? no, verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.
38 Then the lictors reported all these words to the magistrates: and they were terrified, when they heard they were Roman citizens. 39 So they came and spoke kindly to them, and fetching them out, besought them to depart from the city. 40 Then leaving the prison, they went unto Lydia: and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them, and went their way.