Acts 16:22

And the multitude rose vp together against them, and the Magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beate them.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan

The crowd rose up together against them, and the chief magistrates tore their robes off them and proceeded to order {them} to be beaten with rods.
- New American Standard Version (1995)

And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent their garments off them, and commanded to beat them with rods.
- American Standard Version (1901)

And the people made an attack on them all together: and the authorities took their clothing off them, and gave orders for them to be whipped.
- Basic English Bible

And the crowd rose up too against them; and the praetors, having torn off their clothes, commanded to scourge [them].
- Darby Bible

And the multitude rose together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them.
- Webster's Bible

The crowd, too, joined in the outcry against them, till at length the praetors ordered them to be stripped and beaten with rods;
- Weymouth Bible

The multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates tore their clothes off of them, and commanded them to be beaten with rods.
- World English Bible

And the puple `and magistratis runnen ayens hem, and when thei hadden to-rente the cootis of hem, thei comaundiden hem to be betun with yerdis.
- Wycliffe Bible

And the multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates having torn their garments from them, were commanding to beat [them] with rods,
- Youngs Literal Bible

Wesley's Notes for Acts 16:22

16:20 Being Jews - A nation peculiarly despised by the Romans.

16:21 And teach customs which it is not lawful for us to receive - The world has received all the rules and doctrines of all the philosophers that ever were. But this is a property of Gospel truth: it has something in it peculiarly intolerable to the world.

16:23 They laid many stripes upon them - Either they did not immediately say they were Romans, or in the tumult it was not regarded. Charging the jailer - Perhaps rather to quiet the people than because they thought them criminal.

16:24 Secured their feet in the stocks - These were probably those large pieces of wood, in use among the Romans, which not only loaded the legs of the prisoner, but also kept them extended in a very painful manner.