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When day came, the magistrates sent their officers to say, Those men are to be discharged. (Acts 16, 35)
And the gaoler reported the message to Paul; The magistrates have sent ordering your discharge; it is time you should come out, and go on your way in peace. (Acts 16, 36)
But Paul said to them, What, have they beaten us in public, without trial, Roman citizens as we are,✻ and sent us to prison, and now would they let us out secretly? That will not serve; they must come here themselves, (Acts 16, 37)
and fetch us out in person. When the officers gave this message to the magistrates, they were alarmed by this talk of Roman citizenship; (Acts 16, 38)
On leaving the prison, they went to Lydia’s house, where they saw the brethren and gave them encouragement; then they set out on their travels. (Acts 16, 40)
They continued their journey through Amphipolis and Apollonia, and so reached Thessalonica. Here the Jews had a synagogue, (Acts 17, 1)
and Paul, as his custom was, paid them a visit there. Over a space of three sabbaths he reasoned with them out of the scriptures, (Acts 17, 2)
expounding these and bringing proofs from them that the sufferings of Christ and his rising from the dead were fore-ordained; the Christ, he said, is none other than the Jesus whom I am preaching to you. (Acts 17, 3)
Some of them were convinced, and threw in their lot with Paul and Silas; a great number, too, of those Gentiles who worshipped the true God, and not a few of the leading women. (Acts 17, 4)
The Jews were indignant at this, and they found confederates among the riff-raff of the market-place, to make a disturbance and throw the city into an uproar. Then they made a sudden descent on Jason’s house, in the hope of bringing Paul and Silas out into the presence of the people; (Acts 17, 5)
but, as they could not find them, they dragged Jason✻and some of the brethren before the city council, crying out, Here they are, the men who are turning the state upside down; they have come here too;✻ (Acts 17, 6)
and Jason has given them hospitality. All these folk defy the edicts of Caesar; they say there is another king, one Jesus. (Acts 17, 7)
