Acts 16:15-29

¹⁵And when she had been baptised and her house, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and abide there. And she constrained us.

¹⁶And it came to pass as we were going to prayer that a certain female slave, having a spirit of Python, met us, who brought much profit to her masters by prophesying.

¹⁷She, having followed Paul and us, cried saying, These men are bondmen of the Most High God, who announce to you the way of salvation.

¹⁸And this she did many days. And Paul, being distressed, turned, and said to the spirit, I enjoin thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And it came out the same hour.

¹⁹And her masters, seeing that the hope of their gains was gone, having seized Paul and Silas, dragged them into the market before the magistrates;

²⁰and having brought them up to the praetors, said, These men utterly trouble our city, being Jews,

²¹and announce customs which it is not lawful for us to receive nor practise, being Romans.

²²And the crowd rose up too against them; and the praetors, having torn off their clothes, commanded to scourge them.

²³And having laid many stripes upon them they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely;

²⁴who, having received such a charge, cast them into the inner prison, and secured their feet to the stocks.

²⁵And at midnight Paul and Silas, in praying, were praising God with singing, and the prisoners listened to them.

²⁶And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison shook, and all the doors were immediately opened, and the bonds of all loosed.

²⁷And the jailor being awakened out of his sleep, and seeing the doors of the prison opened, having drawn a sword was going to kill himself, thinking the prisoners had fled.

²⁸But Paul called out with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm, for we are all here.

²⁹And having asked for lights, he rushed in, and, trembling, fell down before Paul and Silas.