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Acts 16:22-28

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22The crowd joined in the attack against them, and the magistrates tore the clothes off of them and ordered a beating with rods.
23When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them securely;
24who, having received such a charge, threw them into the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.
25Well about midnight Paul and Silas were singing hymns to God in prayer; and the other prisoners were listening to them.
26Suddenly there was a great earthquake, enough to shake the foundations of the prison; immediately all the doors were opened and everyone's chains were loosed.
27But the jailer, awaking from sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew sword, intending to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.
28But Paul shouted out, “Don't harm yourself, because we are all here!”

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