At once those who were about to interrogate Paul stepped back, and the commander himself was alarmed when he realized that he had put a Roman citizen in chains.
The commander came up and arrested Paul, ordering that he be bound with two chains. Then he asked who he was and what he
the commander ordered that Paul be brought into the barracks. He directed that Paul be flogged and interrogated to deter
So the officers relayed this message to the magistrates, who were alarmed to hear that Paul and Silas were Roman citizen
Women received back their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused their release, so that they might