Therefore if Demetrius, and the craftsmen which are with him, have a matter against any man, the courts are open, and there are officials: let them bring charges against one another.
And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O you Jews, it would only be fitting for me to bear with you:
If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates: then shall you arise, and go up into the place which the LORD your God shall choose;