Acts 16:35-37
35 And when it was day, the magistrates sent the officers, saying, “Let those men go.” 36 So the keeper of the prison reported these words to Paul, saying, “The magistrates have sent to let you go. Now therefore depart, and go in peace.” 37 But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us openly, uncondemned Romans, and have thrown us into prison. And now do they put us out secretly? No indeed! Let them come themselves and get us out.”
After illegally beating and imprisoning Paul and Silas, after an earthquake broke the cell doors down and the jailer was saved, after all these things the city rulers sent word to let them go secretly. Paul stood firm to point out as Roman citizens they were unlawfully treated, even beaten. So he told them to come personally and publicly to set them free. He used the laws lawfully to show others that he had done no wrong with the gospel, and to send a message to others to allow the words of life to continue to be made available.
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