20. And when they had brought them before the magistrates, they declared, These fellows are Jews and they are throwing our city into great confusion.
21. They encourage the practice of customs which it is unlawful for us Romans to accept or observe!
22. The crowd [also] joined in the attack upon them, and the rulers tore the clothes off of them and commanded that they be beaten with rods.
23. And when they had struck them with many blows, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely.
24. He, having received [so strict a] charge, put them into the inner prison (the dungeon) and fastened their feet in the stocks.
25. But about midnight, as Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the [other] prisoners were listening to them,
26. Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the very foundations of the prison were shaken; and at once all the doors were opened and everyone's shackles were unfastened.
27. When the jailer, startled out of his sleep, saw that the prison doors were open, he drew his sword and was on the point of killing himself, because he supposed that the prisoners had escaped.
28. But Paul shouted, Do not harm yourself, for we are all here!