Acts 16:38 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

³⁸ And the sergeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁸ And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁸ The police reported this message to the magistrates, and they were frightened when they heard that the prisoners were Roman citizens;

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁸ And the serjeants reported these words unto the magistrates: and they feared when they heard that they were Romans;

Common English Bible

³⁸ The police reported this to the legal authorities, who were alarmed to learn that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁸ and let us drive them away." Then the attendants reported these words to the magistrates. And upon hearing that they were Romans, they were afraid.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁸ And let us out themselves. And the serjeants told these words to the magistrates. And they were afraid, hearing that they were Romans.

Acts 16:38 Cross References

Matthew 14:5

And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.

Matthew 21:46

But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.

Luke 12:11

And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say:

Acts 16:35

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

Acts 22:29

Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.