22And the crowd rose up together against them; and the magistrates tore their clothes and ordered men to beat them with rods.
23And when they laid many strokes on them, they cast them into prison, commanding the prison keeper to keep them securely;
24who, having received such a command, cast them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.
25Now about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
26And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and all the bonds were loosed.
27And becoming awake, the prison keeper, seeing the doors of the prison open, drawing a sword, he was about to kill himself, supposing the prisoners to have escaped.