Paul and Silas had ‘suffered’ terribly in Philippi. After Paul had exorcized from a slave girl ‘a spirit by which she predicted the future’, both men were dragged into the market place to face the authorities. They were falsely accused of advocating unlawful customs, ‘severely flogged’ and thrown into prison, where they were put in the inner cell and their feet fastened in the stocks (Acts 16). In spite of what the two men had suffered at Philippi, they were not afraid of entering Thessalonica and