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Acts 16:22 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" The multitude rose up together against them and the magistrates tore their clothes from them, then commanded them to be beaten with rods. "

Acts 16:22

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20 When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, “These men, being Jews, are agitating our city

21 and advocate customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans.”

22 The multitude rose up together against them and the magistrates tore their clothes from them, then commanded them to be beaten with rods.

23 When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely.

24 Having received such a command, he threw them into the inner prison and secured their feet in the stocks.

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Acts 16:1

"He came to Derbe and Lystra; and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed, but his father was a Greek."

Acts 16:2

"The brothers who were at Lystra and Iconium gave a good testimony about him."

Acts 16:3

"Paul wanted to have him go out with him, and he took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts, for they all knew that his father was a Greek."

Acts 16:4

"As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered the decrees to them to keep which had been ordained by the apostles and elders who were at Jerusalem."

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"So the assemblies were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily."

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"When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia."

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