Acts 16:25–34

²⁵About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.^{* 26}Suddenly there was an earthquake so violent that the foundations of the prison were shaken, and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were unfastened.^{* 27}When the jailer woke up and saw the prison doors wide open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, since he supposed that the prisoners had escaped.^{* 28}But Paul shouted in a loud voice, “Do not harm yourself, for we are all here.” ²⁹The jailer^l called for lights, and rushing in, he fell down trembling before Paul and Silas. ³⁰Then he brought them outside and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”^{* 31}They answered, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”^{* 32}They spoke the word of the Lord^m to him and to all who were in his house. ³³At the same hour of the night he took them and washed their wounds; then he and his entire family were baptized without delay. ³⁴He brought them up into the house and set food before them, and he and his entire household rejoiced that he had become a believer in God.^*