Acts 16:20

American Standard Version

and when they had brought them unto the magistrates, they said, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city,

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Acts 16:20 in other translations

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

Acts 16:20 · World English Bible

Acts 16:20 in context

  1. 18And this she did for many days. But Paul, being sore troubled, turned and said to the spirit, I charge thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And it came out that very hour.
  2. 19But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they laid hold on Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers,
  3. 20and when they had brought them unto the magistrates, they said, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city,
  4. 21and set forth customs which it is not lawful for us to receive, or to observe, being Romans.
  5. 22And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent their garments off them, and commanded to beat them with rods.