And the multitude rose up together against them, and, the magistrates, rending off them their mantles, were giving orders to beat them with rods;

What will ye? that, with a rod, I should come unto you? or, with love, and a spirit of meekness?

Thrice, have I been beaten with rods, once, have I been stoned, thrice, have I been shipwrecked, a day and night, in the deep, have I spent;

Having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant covered around on every side with gold, in which was a golden jar holding the manna, and the rod of Aaron that sprouted, and the tables of the covenant;