Acts 16:19 meaning and explanation
When the girl’s owners saw that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them before the authorities in the marketplace.
Acts 16:19, Berean Standard Bible
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Paul and Silas are in Philippi, a Roman colony, where Paul has just cast a spirit of divination out of a slave girl. Her owners had profited from her fortune telling, and Luke notes plainly that their hope of making money was gone.
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