Acts 16:35-40 - Paul And Silas Receive An Official Apology
35 When day broke, the praetors sent the lictors with the message, "Release these men."
36 The jailer repeated this to Paul. "The praetors," he said, "have sent to release you. So come out and go in peace?"
37 But Paul replied, "They flogged us in public and without a trial, flogged Roman citizens! They put us in prison, and now they are going to get rid of us secretly! No indeed! Let them come here themselves and take us out!"
38 The lictors reported this to the praetors, who, on hearing the men were Roman citizens, became alarmed; 39 they went to appease them and after taking them out of prison begged them to leave the town. 40 So they left the prison and went to Lydia's house, where they saw the brothers and encouraged them; then they departed.