Acts 16:18-22

Now she continued doing this for many days. But Paul was greatly annoyed, and he turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” And it came out at that very moment.

But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was suddenly gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the authorities,

and when they had brought them to the chief magistrates, they said, “These men, Jews as they are, are causing our city trouble,

and they are proclaiming customs that are not lawful for us to accept or to practice, since we are Romans.” Paul and Silas Imprisoned

The crowd joined in an attack against them, and the chief magistrates tore their robes off them and proceeded to order them to be beaten with rods.