Acts 16:19-33

¹⁹When her masters saw that their opportunity to make money was now gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the authorities.

²⁰When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, “These men are stirring up our city. They are Jews.

²¹They proclaim customs that are not lawful for Romans to accept or practice.”

²²Then the crowd rose up together against Paul and Silas; the magistrates tore their garments off them and commanded them to be beaten with rods.

²³When they had laid many blows upon them, they threw them into prison and commanded the jailer to keep them securely.

²⁴After he got this command, the jailer threw them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.

²⁵Around midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.

²⁶Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's chains were unfastened.

²⁷The jailer was awakened from sleep and saw the open prison doors; he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, because he thought that the prisoners had escaped.

²⁸But Paul shouted with a loud voice, saying, “Do not harm yourself, because we are all here.”

²⁹The jailer called for lights and rushed in and, trembling for fear, fell down before Paul and Silas,

³⁰and brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

³¹They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your house.”

³²They spoke the word of the Lord to him, together with everyone in his house.

³³Then the jailer took them at the same hour of the night, and washed their wounds, and he and those in his entire house were baptized immediately.