Station: [80] Prison

Luke recounts: Once, as we were on our way to a place of birth, we encountered a servant girl. She had a spirit of divination, and through this divination she brought her masters great profit! She followed us, shouting at the top of her voice, “These men are servants of the Most High God; they are proclaiming to you the way that leads to salvation.” She did this for many days. This was a nuisance to us. So Paul rebuked her: “Spirit, I command you in the name of Jesus Christ: Come out of this woman!” And at that very moment it left her. But when her masters saw that they could no longer expect any profit, they seized Paul and Silas. They dragged them to the marketplace before the city officials: “Sirs, these Jews are causing trouble in our city.” Then the chief officials ordered, “Strip them of their clothes, flog them severely with rods! Then throw them into prison and put their feet in stocks!”