Acts 16:25-39

²⁵And at midnight Paul and Silas praying, were singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were hearing them,

²⁶and suddenly a great earthquake came, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken, opened also presently were all the doors, and of all — the bands were loosed;

²⁷and the jailor having come out of sleep, and having seen the doors of the prison open, having drawn a sword, was about to kill himself, supposing the prisoners to be fled,

²⁸and Paul cried out with a loud voice, saying, 'Thou mayest not do thyself any harm, for we are all here.'

²⁹And, having asked for a light, he sprang in, and trembling he fell down before Paul and Silas,

³⁰and having brought them forth, said, 'Sirs, what must I do — that I may be saved?'

³¹and they said, 'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved — thou and thy house;'

³²and they spake to him the word of the Lord, and to all those in his household;

³³and having taken them, in that hour of the night, he did bathe them from the blows, and was baptized, himself and all his presently,

³⁴having brought them also into his house, he set food before them, and was glad with all the household, he having believed in God.

³⁵And day having come, the magistrates sent the rod-bearers, saying, 'Let those men go;'

³⁶and the jailor told these words unto Paul — 'The magistrates have sent, that ye may be let go; now, therefore, having gone forth go on in peace;'

³⁷and Paul said to them, 'Having beaten us publicly uncondemned — men, Romans being — they did cast us to prison, and now privately do they cast us forth! why no! but having come themselves, let them bring us forth.'

³⁸And the rod-bearers told to the magistrates these sayings, and they were afraid, having heard that they are Romans,

³⁹and having come, they besought them, and having brought them forth, they were asking them to go forth from the city;