They arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail. The crowd joined in the attack against Paul and Silas, and the magistrates ordered them to be stripped and beaten with rods.Acts -21 tells of the apostles, which included John, being incarcerated in a "common jail". However, Scripture reports they all escaped. Paul and Silas are imprisoned in the 16th chapter of Acts after Paul commands an evil spirit out of a slave girl that had been following them. The priests and rulers were filled with indignation, and laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison. Paul returns to Jerusalem where he is arrested and a long period of confinement in various locations begins. Mark Burnett (who has finally shaved his beard!) and Roma Downey released a new clip today that shows an angel setting the apostles free from prison. Acts' second telling of Paul's conversion occurs in a speech Paul gives when he is arrested in Jerusalem. Formerly a retreat director in Gloucester, Massachusetts.