You, Ezra, after the wisdom of your God who is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God; and teach him who doesn't know them.

For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.

When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, "These men, being Jews, are agitating our city,

The multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates tore their clothes off of them, and commanded them to be beaten with rods.

But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, "Let those men go."

The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, "The magistrates have sent to let you go; now therefore come out, and go in peace."

The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,