Acts 16:20–33

²⁰and having brought them to the magistrates, they said, ‘These men do exceedingly trouble our city, being Jews; ²¹and they proclaim customs that are not lawful for us to receive nor to do, being Romans.’ ²²And the multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates having torn their garments from them, were commanding to beat them with rods, ²³many blows also having laid upon them, they cast them to prison, having given charge to the jailor to keep them safely, ²⁴who such a charge having received, did put them to the inner prison, and their feet made fast in the stocks.

²⁵And at midnight Paul and Silas praying, were singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were hearing them, ²⁶and suddenly a great earthquake came, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken, opened also presently were all the doors, and of all—the bands were loosed; ²⁷and the jailor having come out of sleep, and having seen the doors of the prison open, having drawn a sword, was about to kill himself, supposing the prisoners to be fled, ²⁸and Paul cried out with a loud voice, saying, ‘Thou mayest not do thyself any harm, for we are all here.’ ²⁹And, having asked for a light, he sprang in, and trembling he fell down before Paul and Silas, ³⁰and having brought them forth, said, ‘Sirs, what must I do—that I may be saved?’ ³¹and they said, ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved—thou and thy house;’ ³²and they spake to him the word of the Lord, and to all those in his household; ³³and having taken them, in that hour of the night, he did bathe them from the blows, and was baptized, himself and all his presently,