Acts 16:25–34

About midnightⁿ Paul and Silas^o were praying and singing hymns^p to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken.^q At once all the prison doors flew open,^r and everyone’s chains came loose.^s The jailer woke up, and when he saw the prison doors open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself because he thought the prisoners had escaped.^t But Paul shouted, “Don’t harm yourself! We are all here!”

The jailer called for lights, rushed in and fell trembling before Paul and Silas.^u He then brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”^v

They replied, “Believe^w in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved^x—you and your household.”^y Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all the others in his house. At that hour of the night^z the jailer took them and washed their wounds; then immediately he and all his household were baptized.^a The jailer brought them into his house and set a meal before them; he^b was filled with joy because he had come to believe in God—he and his whole household.