23. When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,
24. who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.
25. But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
26. Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bonds were loosened.
27. 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.
28. But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, “Don’t harm yourself, for we are all here!”