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Acts 16:17-28

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17This girl followed Paul and the rest of us, calling, “These men are servants of the most high God, and they are bringing you news of a way to salvation.”
18She had been doing this for several days, when Paul, much vexed, turned and said to the spirit within her, “In the name of Jesus Christ I command you to leave her.” That very moment the spirit left her.
19When her masters saw that there was no hope of further profit from her, they seized Paul and Silas, dragged them into the public square to the authorities,
20and took them before the Magistrates. “These men are causing a great disturbance in our town,” they complained;
21“They are Jews, and they are teaching customs which it is not right for us, as Romans, to sanction or adopt.”
22The mob rose as one person against them, and the Magistrates stripped them of their clothing and ordered them to be beaten with rods.
23After beating them severely, the Magistrates put them in prison, with orders to the jailer to keep them in safe custody.
24On receiving so strict an order, the Governor put them into the inner cell, and secured their feet in the stocks.
25About midnight, while Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and while the prisoners were listening to them,
26suddenly there was an earthquake of such violence that the jail was shaken to its foundations; all the doors flew open, and all the prisoners' chains were loosened.
27Roused from his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, the Governor drew his sword intending to kill himself, in the belief that the prisoners had escaped.
28But Paul called our loudly, “Do not harm yourself; we are all here.”

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