Acts 16:22-40 ▼

22 And the multitude rose up together against them; and the magistrates, having torn off their garments, were giving orders to beat them with rods;

23 and, having laid upon them many stripes, they thrust them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely;

24 who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.

25 And about midnight Paul and Silas, while engaged in prayer, were singing praise to God; and the prisoners were listening to them.

26 And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and the bonds of all were loosed.

27 And the jailer, being aroused from sleep, and seeing the doors of the prison open, drawing a sword, was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had fled.

28 But Paul cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Do yourself no harm, for we are all here."

29 And, calling for a light, he sprang in, and, being in fear, he fell down before Paul and Silas;

30 and, having brought them out, he said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"

31 And they said, "Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you shall be saved, and your house."

32 And they spake to him the word of the Lord with all that were in his house.

33 And, having taken them with him, at that hour of the night he washed their stripes; and was immersed, himself and all his, immediately;

34 and, bringing them up into his house, he placed a table near them ; and he rejoiced greatly with all his house, having believed in God.

35 And, when it was day, the magistrates sent forth the serjeants, saying, "Release these men."

36 And the jailer reported these words to Paul, "The magistrates have sent that ye be released; now, therefore, going forth, go on your way in peace."

37 But Paul said to them "Having beaten us in public, uncondemned, being Romans, they cast us into prison; and now are they casting us out secretly? Nay, verily; but, coming themselves, let them lead us out."

38 And the serjeants reported these words to the magistrates; and they were afraid, when they heard that they were Romans;

39 and, coming, they besought them; and, leading them forth, they kept asking them to go away from the city.

40 And, coming out from the prison, they entered into the house of Lidia; and, seeing the brethren, they comforted them , and departed.