Acts 16:27-36

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.”

²⁹Calling for a light, the Governor rushed in, and flung himself trembling at the feet of Paul and Silas.

³⁰Then he led them out, and said, “What must I do to be saved?”

³¹“Believe in Jesus, our Lord,” they replied, “and you will be saved, you and your household too.”

³²Then they spoke to him of God's message, and to all his household as well.

³³And that very hour of the night he took them and washed their wounds, and he himself and everyone belonging to him were baptized without delay.

³⁴Afterward he took them up to his house and set before them something to eat, rejoicing that he, with all his household, had come to believe in God.

³⁵In the morning the Magistrates sent the police with an order for the men to be discharged.

³⁶The jailer told Paul of his instructions. “The Magistrates have sent an order for your discharge,” he said, “so you had better leave the place at once and go quietly away.”