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Acts 16:19

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

When her owners realised that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas  and dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities.

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The whole city was stirred up, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul, dragged him out of the temple, and at once the gates were shut.


When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city officials, shouting, ‘These men who have turned the world upside down have come here too,


by beatings, by imprisonments,  by riots, by labours, by sleepless nights, by times of hunger,


Once, as we were on our way to prayer, a slave girl met us who had a spirit by which she predicted the future.  She made a large profit for her owners by fortune-telling.


Saul,  however, was ravaging the church. He would enter house after house, drag off men and women, and put them in prison.


who have risked their lives  for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.


Some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and when they won over the crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, thinking he was dead.


When an attempt was made by both the Gentiles and Jews, with their rulers, to mistreat and stone them,


I will show him how much he must suffer for my name.’


‘But you, be on your guard! They will hand you over to local courts,   , and you will be flogged   in the synagogues.   You will stand before governors and kings   because of me,   as a witness   to them.


‘Then they will hand you over to be persecuted, and they will kill you. You will be hated by all nations because of my name.


Yet you have dishonoured the poor.  Don’t the rich oppress you and drag  you into court?


Then the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, decided to select men who were among them and to send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas, called Barsabbas, and Silas,  both leading men among the brothers.


For the love of money is a root  of all kinds of evil, and by craving it, some have wandered away from the faith  and pierced themselves with many griefs.


So they approached the king  and asked about his edict: ‘Didn’t you sign an edict that for thirty days any person who petitions any god or man except you, the king, will be thrown into the lions’ den? ’ The king answered, ‘As a law of the Medes and Persians, the order stands  and is irrevocable.’


But Paul chose Silas and departed, after being commended by the brothers and sisters to the grace of the Lord.


Bringing them before the chief magistrates, they said, ‘These men are seriously disturbing our city. They are Jews


About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.


The jailer called for lights, rushed in, and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas.


since you are engaged in the same struggle that you saw I had and now hear that I have.


On the contrary, after we had previously suffered  and were treated outrageously in Philippi,  as you know, we were emboldened by our God to speak the gospel of God to you in spite of great opposition.





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