ACTS 16:22 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them.”
The crowd joined in the attack against Paul and Silas, and the magistrates ordered them to be stripped and beaten — the mob (homothymadon, with one mind) joins the owners' assault, with magistrates authorizing flogging (rhabdizo, to beat with rods). The stripping (ekdyo) adds humiliation to pain, and the beating is severe enough to warrant later mention of many stripes (22:25).
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