Acts 16:38
“And the Sergeants tolde these words vnto the Magistrates: and they feared when they heard that they were Romanes.”
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Acts 16:38 Context
36And the keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul, The Magistrates haue sent to let you goe: Now therefore depart, and goe in peace. 37But Paul said vnto them, They haue beaten vs openly vncondemned, being Romanes, and haue cast vs into prison, and now doe they thrust vs out priuily? Nay verily, but let them come themselues, and fetch vs out. 38And the Sergeants tolde these words vnto the Magistrates: and they feared when they heard that they were Romanes. 39And they came and besought them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the citie. 40And they went out of the prison, and entred into the house of Lydia, and when they had seene the brethren, they comforted them, and departed.
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And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans.
- King James Version
The policemen reported these words to the chief magistrates. They were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,
- New American Standard Version (1995)