22. The crowd joined in the attack on them, and the magistrates had them stripped and ordered them to be beaten with rods.
23. After inflicting many blows on them, they threw them into prison and instructed the jailer to guard them securely.
24. When he received these instructions, he put them in the innermost cell and secured their feet to a stake.
25. About midnight, while Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God as the prisoners listened,
26. there was suddenly such a severe earthquake that the foundations of the jail shook; all the doors flew open, and the chains of all were pulled loose.
27. When the jailer woke up and saw the prison doors wide open, he drew [his] sword and was about to kill himself, thinking that the prisoners had escaped.