Acts 16:20-28

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.”