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Acts 16:20
“When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, "These men, being Jews, are agitating our city,”
Verse in context — Acts 16
She was doing this for many days. But Paul, becoming greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, "I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!" It came out that very hour.
But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.
When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, "These men, being Jews, are agitating our city,
and set forth customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans.
The multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates tore their clothes off of them, and commanded them to be beaten with rods.
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