Acts 16:19–27

¹⁹But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.↗

²⁰When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, “These men, being Jews, are agitating our city↗

²¹and advocate customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans.”↗

²²The multitude rose up together against them and the magistrates tore their clothes from them, then commanded them to be beaten with rods.↗

²³When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely.↗

²⁴Having received such a command, he threw them into the inner prison and secured their feet in the stocks.↗

²⁵But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.↗

²⁶Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bonds were loosened.↗

²⁷The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.↗