ACTS 16:19 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers,”
When her owners realized that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to face the authorities — the slave owners' motivation is explicitly economic: losing the woman's fortune-telling income (elpis tou perissou, hope of profit) prompted their action. The phrase seized (epilambanō) and dragged (katasyrō) emphasizes violence and public humiliation.
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