ACTS 16:17-27

¹⁷The same following after Paul and us cried out, saying, These men are servants of the Most High God, which proclaim unto you the way of salvation.

¹⁸And this she did for many days. But Paul, being sore troubled, turned and said to the spirit, I charge thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And it came out that very hour.

¹⁹But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they laid hold on Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers,

²⁰and when they had brought them unto the magistrates, they said, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city,

²¹and set forth customs which it is not lawful for us to receive, or to observe, being Romans.

²²And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent their garments off them, and commanded to beat them with rods.

²³And when they had 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 made their feet fast in the stocks.

²⁵But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns unto God, and the prisoners were listening to them;

²⁶and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison-house were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened; and every one’s bands were loosed.

²⁷And the jailor being roused out of sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword, and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.