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Acts - ch 16 v 21 - 40
- and set forth customs which it is not lawful for us to receive, or to observe, being Romans.
- And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent their garments off them, and commanded to beat them with rods.
- And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:
- who, having received such a charge, cast them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
- But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns unto God, and the prisoners were listening to them;
- and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison-house were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.
- And the jailor, 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.
- But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here.
- And he called for lights and sprang in, and, trembling for fear, fell down before Paul and Silas,
- and brought them out and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
- And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt be saved, thou and thy house.
- And they spake the word of the Lord unto him, with all that were in his house.
- And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, immediately.
- And he brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his house, having believed in God.
- But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, Let those men go.
- And the jailor reported the words to Paul, `saying', The magistrates have sent to let you go: now therefore come forth, and go in peace.
- But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us publicly, uncondemned, men that are Romans, and have cast us into prison; and do they now cast us out privily? Nay verily; but let them come themselves and bring us out.
- And the sergeants reported these words unto the magistrates: and they feared when they heard that they were Romans;
- and they came and besought them; and when they had brought them out, they asked them to go away from the city.
- And they went out of the prison, and entered into `the house' of Lydia: and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them, and departed.
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