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The 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.
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But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, "Don't harm yourself, for we are all here!"
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He called for lights and sprang in, 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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They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your house."
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They spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in his house.
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He took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.
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He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his house, having believed in God.
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But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, "Let those men go."
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The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, "The magistrates have sent to let you go; now therefore come out, and go in peace."
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But Paul said to them, "They have beaten us publicly, without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do they now release us secretly? No, most assuredly, but let them come themselves and bring us out!"