Charles Spurgeon Commentary Acts 16:19-20

"But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they laid hold on Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers, and when they had brought them unto the magistrates, they said, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city," — Acts 16:19-20 (ASV)

And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the market-place to the rulers, and brought them to the magistrates,

They dragged them into the Forum, the place where the courts usually sat, and brought them before the magistrates, "saying" - what? "These men have cured a demoniac, they have performed a miracle, and cast a devil out of a young woman"? Oh! no; there would have been no wrong in that, so they must invent a charge.

What do they say?