<p>16:35 <i>But when it was day, the magistrates sent their officers, saying: Let those men go</i>- Word may have got to them from Lydia or other converts, that Paul was a Roman citizen. But note :38 &quot; they feared when they heard that they were Romans&quot;. So perhaps news of the strange security of the prisoners and conversion of the jailor had already reached them and they didn't wish to as it were get in trouble with God.</p>