Acts 16:35-17:9 NIV

When it was daylight, the magistrates sent their officers to the jailer with the order: “Release those men.” 36. The jailer told Paul, “The magistrates have ordered that you and Silas be released. Now you can leave. Go in peace.” 37. But Paul said to the officers: “They beat us publicly without a trial, even though we are Roman citizens, and threw us into prison. And now do they want to get rid of us quietly? No! Let them come themselves and escort us out.” 38. The officers reported this to the magistrates, and when they heard that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens, they were alarmed. 39. They came to appease them and escorted them from the prison, requesting them to leave the city. 40. After Paul and Silas came out of the prison, they went to Lydia’s house, where they met with the brothers and sisters and encouraged them. Then they left. 17:1-9 When Paul and his companions had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue. 2. As was his custom, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures, 3. explaining and proving that the Messiah had to suffer and rise from the dead. “This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Messiah,” he said. 4. Some of the Jews were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, as did a large number of God-fearing Greeks and quite a few prominent women. 5. But other Jews were jealous; so they rounded up some bad characters from the marketplace, formed a mob and started a riot in the city. They rushed to Jason’s house in search of Paul and Silas in order to bring them out to the crowd. 6. But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some other believers before the city officials, shouting: “These men who have caused trouble all over the world have now come here, 7. and Jason has welcomed them into his house. They are all defying Caesar’s decrees, saying that there is another king, one called Jesus.” 8. When they heard this, the crowd and the city officials were thrown into turmoil. 9. Then they made Jason and the others post bond and let them go.