Acts 16:35-40 - Paul And Silas Receive An Official Apology
35 When day broke, the chiefs of the police court sent policemen with the message to let the men go.
36 The jailer reported this message to Paul, saying, "The chiefs of the police court have sent orders to let you go. So now you may come out and go in peace."
37 But Paul said to them, "They beat us in public and that without a trial, and put us in jail although we are Roman citizens! Let them come here themselves and take us out!"
38 The policemen reported this message to the chiefs of the police court, and they became alarmed when they heard that they were Roman citizens, 39 and came and pleaded with them, and took them out and begged them to leave town. 40 After getting out of jail, they went to Lydia's house; they saw the brothers and encouraged them, and then left town.