26And suddenly a great earth-moving was made, so that the foundaments of the prison were moved. And anon all the doors were opened, and the bonds of all were loosed.
27And the keeper of the prison was awaked, and saw the gates of the prison opened, and with a sword drawn out he would have slain himself, and guessed that the men that were bound had fled.
28But Paul cried with a great voice, and said, Do thou none harm or nothing of evil to thyself, for all we be here.
29And he asked light, and entered, and trembled, and fell down to Paul and to Silas at their feet.
30And he brought them withoutforth, and said, Lords, what behooveth me to do, that I be made safe?
31And they said, Believe thou in the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt be safe, and thine house.
32And they spake to him the word of the Lord, with all that were in his house.
33And he took them in the same hour of the night, and washed their wounds. And he was baptized, and all his house anon.
34And when he had brought them into his house, he set to them a board. And he was glad with all his house, and believed to God.
35And when day was come, the magistrates sent constables, and said, Deliver thou or Dismiss ye those men.
36And the keeper of the prison told these words to Paul, That the magistrates have sent, that ye be delivered; now therefore go ye out, and go ye in peace.
37And Paul said to them, They sent us men of Rome into prison, that were beaten openly and uncondemned, and now privily they bring us out; not so, but come they themselves, and deliver us out.
38And the constables told these words to the magistrates; and they dreaded, for they heard that they were Romans.
39And they came, and besought them, and they brought them out, and prayed, that they should go out of the city.
40And they went out of the prison, and entered in to Lydia. And when they saw brethren, they comforted them, and went forth.