You need only travel a short way into Christian history to find people echoing Paul and Silas’s double act. The whole band of apostles was arrested in the early days of the New Testament church for refusing to stop preaching, and all were beaten for their defiance. Their immediate reaction was joy that they had been counted worthy of suffering for Christ, a response that was tested to the full in subsequent years. Every one of them except John was, as far as we know, martyred for his faith. The early