Acts 16:20-30

20 and when they had brought them to the chief magistrates, they said, "These men are throwing our city into confusion, being Jews,

21 and ¹are proclaiming customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being ²Romans."

Paul and Silas Imprisoned

22 The crowd rose up together against them, and the chief magistrates tore their robes off them and proceeded to order them to be ³beaten with rods.

23 When they had struck them with many blows, they threw them into prison, commanding ⁴the jailer to guard them securely;

24 and he, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in ⁵the stocks.

25 But about midnight ⁶Paul and Silas were praying and ⁷singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them;

26 and suddenly ⁸there came a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison house were shaken; and immediately ⁹all the doors were opened and everyone's ¹⁰chains were unfastened.

27 When ¹¹the jailer awoke and saw the prison doors opened, he drew his sword and was about ¹²to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.