Acts 16:19-40 Now her masters having seen that their hope of profit was gone, having taken hold of Paul and Silas, dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.

BLB⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁹ Now her masters having seen that their hope of profit was gone, having taken hold of Paul and Silas, dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers. ²⁰ And having brought them up to the magistrates, they said, “These men, being Jews, exceedingly trouble our city ²¹ and preach customs that it is not lawful for us, being Romans, to accept nor to practice.” ²² And the crowd rose up together against them, and the magistrates having torn off their garments, were commanding that they be beaten with rods. ²³ And having laid many blows on them, they cast them into prison, having charged the jailer to keep them securely, ²⁴ who having received such an order, threw them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks. ²⁵ Now toward midnight, Paul and Silas praying, were singing praises to God. And the prisoners were listening to them. ²⁶ And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that foundations of the prison house were shaken, and immediately all the doors were opened, and the chains of all were loosed. ²⁷ And the jailer having been awoken and having seen the doors of the prison open, having drawn his sword was about to kill himself, supposing the prisoners to have escaped. ²⁸ But Paul called out in a loud voice saying, “Do not harm yourself, for we are all here!” ²⁹ And having called for lights, he rushed in, and having become terrified, he fell down before Paul and Silas. ³⁰ And having brought them out, he was saying, “Sirs, what is necessary of me to do, that I may be saved?” ³¹ And they said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household.” ³² And they spoke the word of the Lord to him along with all those in his house. ³³ And having taken them in that hour of the night, he washed them from the wounds, and immediately he was baptized, and all his household. ³⁴ And having brought them into the house, he laid a table for them and rejoiced with all his household, having believed in God. ³⁵ And day having come, the magistrates sent the officers, saying, “Release those men.” ³⁶ And the jailer reported these words to Paul: “The captains have sent that you may be let go. Now therefore having gone out, depart in peace.” ³⁷ But Paul was saying to them, “Having beaten us publicly, uncondemned men being Romans, they cast us into prison, and now do they throw us out secretly? No indeed! Instead, having come themselves, let them bring us out.” ³⁸ And the officers reported these words to the captains, and they were afraid, having heard that they are Romans. ³⁹ And having come, they appealed to them, and having brought them out, they were asking them to go out of the city. ⁴⁰ And having gone forth out of the prison, they came to Lydia, and having seen them, they exhorted the brothers and departed.