Acts 16:15-33

Sawyer(i) 15 (14:2) And when she was baptized, and her house, she requested saying, If you have judged me faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay; and she constrained us. 16 (14:3) And when we went to the proseuche, a certain female servant having a spirit, a diviner, met us, who brought her masters much gain by divining. 17 She following Paul and us, cried, saying, These men are servants of the Most High God, who declare to us the way of salvation; 18 and this she did for many days. And Paul being grieved turned around and said to the spirit, I command you, in the name of Jesus Christ, to come out of her. And it came out of her in that hour. 19 And her masters seeing that the hope of their gain was gone, seizing Paul and Silas dragged them to the market, to the rulers, 20 and bringing them before the prefects said, These men, being Jews, greatly trouble the city, 21 and preach customs which it is not lawful for us, being Romans, to receive or observe. 22 And the multitude came together against them, and the prefects tearing off their clothes gave orders to beat them with rods, 23 and having inflicted many blows on them cast them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely; 24 who, having received such a charge, cast them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks. 25 (14:4) But at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and sung praises to God, and the prisoners heard them. 26 And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and all the doors were immediately opened, and the bands of all were removed. 27 And the jailer awaking from sleep and seeing the doors of the prison opened, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped. 28 But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do yourself no harm, for we are all here. 29 And asking for a light he sprang in, and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas, 30 and bringing them out said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? 31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you shall be saved, and your house. 32 And they spoke the word of the Lord to him and all those in his house. 33 (14:5) And taking them that hour of the night, he washed them from their stripes, and was baptized, he and all his, immediately,