Riverside(i)
22 The crowd joined in the attack upon them, and the magistrates tore off their clothes and ordered them to be beaten with rods.
23 After laying many stripes upon them they cast them into prison, ordering the jailer to keep them securely.
24 He on receiving such an order thrust them into the inner prison and made their feet secure in the stocks.
25 But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening.
26 Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. Immediately all the doors were opened and every one's fetters were loosed.
27 The jailer, waking from sleep and seeing the doors of the prison open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, thinking that the prisoners had escaped.
28 But Paul said with a loud voice, "Do no harm to yourself, for we are all here."
29 Calling for a light he sprang in and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas,
30 and led them out and said, "Men, what must I do to be saved?"
31 They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, and your household,"
32 and they told the message of God to him and to all who were in his house.
33 He took them at that hour of the night and washed their stripes. Then he was baptized, he and all of his household, immediately.
34 He brought them into his house and spread the table for them, and rejoiced with his whole family because he had believed in God.
35 When morning came the magistrates sent their orderlies to say, "Set those men at liberty."
36 The jailer told this order to Paul, "The magistrates have sent to have you set at liberty. Now go out and proceed on your journey in peace."
37 But Paul said to them, "After beating us publicly and without a trial, although we are Romans, they cast us into prison. And are they now sending us out secretly? No, let them come themselves and lead us out."
38 The orderlies reported these words to the magistrates. When they heard that they were Romans they were alarmed,
39 and came and begged them, and after leading them out requested them to leave the city.
40 They came out of the prison and went into Lydia's house, and after seeing and encouraging the brethren they departed.