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Acts 16:38
And the sergeants told these words to the magistrates: and they feared when they heard that they were Romans.
Acts 16:38 · Webster Bible
Acts 16:38 in other translations
And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans.
So the officers relayed this message to the magistrates, who were alarmed to hear that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens.
The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,
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In context
35 And when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, Let those men go.
36 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.
37 But Paul said to them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast [us] into prison; and now do they thrust us out privately? no verily; but let them come themselves and bring us out.
38 And the sergeants told these words to the magistrates: and they feared when they heard that they were Romans.
39 And they came and besought them, and brought [them] out, and desired [them] to depart out of the city.
40 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.
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