“And the sergeants 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. They feared, it says: because the men were Romans, not because they had unjustly cast them into prison. And…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — Homily on Acts 36
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39And they came and besought them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the city.
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37But 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.
38And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans.
— Acts 16:39 —
40And 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.