The authorities made Jason and the others pay the required amount of money to be released, and then let them go.
But some Jews were jealous and gathered worthless loafers from the streets and formed a mob. They set the whole city in an uproar and attacked the home of a man named Jason, in an attempt to find Paul and Silas and bring them out to the people.
With these words they threw the crowd and the city authorities in an uproar.