ACTS—NOTE ON Acts 16:22 gave orders to beat them with rods. Magistrates in Roman cities had attendants who carried bundles of wooden rods bound together. These symbolized the magistrates’ authority and their right to inflict corporal punishment. Paul and Silas were severely beaten with these wooden rods (v. Acts 16:23; compare 2 Corinthians 11:25). There was no fair hearing to gather the facts or to allow Paul and Silas to speak in their own defense (see 1 Thessalonians 2:2).

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