Acts 16:27-37

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!”

²⁹So calling for a light he ran in and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas.

³⁰He then brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

³¹So they said, “Believe upon the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved, you and your household.”

³²Then they spoke the Word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house.

³³In that same hour of the night he took them aside and washed their wounds, and thereupon he and all his family were baptized.

³⁴Then he brought them into his house and set a meal before them, and he was really rejoicing, having believed in God with his whole family.

³⁵Now when it was day the magistrates sent the officers saying, “Let those men go.”

³⁶So the jailer reported these words to Paul, “The magistrates have sent to release you; so now you can leave and go in peace.”

³⁷But Paul said to them: “After severely beating us in public, although we were uncondemned Romans, they threw us into prison, and now do they toss us out on the sly? No way! Rather, let them come themselves and escort us out!”