They laid hands on the apostles and put them in a public jail.

for he refuted the Jews vigorously in public debate, demonstrating from the scriptures that the Christ was Jesus.

You know that I did not hold back from proclaiming to you anything that would be helpful, and from teaching you publicly and from house to house,

But Paul said to the police officers, “They had us beaten in public without a proper trial – even though we are Roman citizens – and they threw us in prison. And now they want to send us away secretly? Absolutely not! They themselves must come and escort us out!”