"And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go. And the keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul, The magistrates have sent to let you go: now therefore depart, and go in peace. But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out. And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans. And they came and besought them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the city. And they went out of the prison, and entered into the house of Lydia and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them, and departed."
Today's lesson tells us that, after being beaten, thrown into prison and freed by the power of God, Paul and Silas were told by the Roman magistrates that they should quietly leave town. Both Paul and Silas, being Romans themselves, demanded that the magistrates come to them and personally apologize before they would leave.
The Roman authority did as they were asked Paul and Silas left Macedonia. ~
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