21. and announce customs which it is not lawful for us to receive nor practise, being Romans.
22. And the crowd rose up too against them; and the praetors, having torn off their clothes, commanded to scourge them.
23. And having laid many stripes upon them they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely;
24. who, having received such a charge, cast them into the inner prison, and secured their feet to the stocks.
25. And at midnight Paul and Silas, in praying, were praising God with singing, and the prisoners listened to them.