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And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast
them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely,
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who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison and made their feet fast in the stocks.
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But at midnight as Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises unto God, and the prisoners heard them,
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then suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed.
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And the keeper of the prison, awaking out of his sleep and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had fled.
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But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm, for we are all here.
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Then he called for a light and came inside and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas
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and brought them out and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
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And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
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And they spoke unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house.
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And he took them the same hour of the night and washed
their stripes and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.