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  The people of Philippi turned against Paul and Silas, and the magistrates tore off their clothes and ordered them to be flogged. They were given many lashes and then thrown into prison. The jailer was ordered to keep them under guard, so he put them in the innermost cell and fastened their feet in the stocks. At midnight, Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening. Suddenly there was a violent earthquake, so that the prison was shaken to its foundations. At that moment, all the doors flew open, and the chains fell off everyone’s feet. The jailer woke up, and when he saw that the prison doors were open, he drew his sword to kill himself, thinking the prisoners had escaped. But Paul shouted, “Don’t harm yourself! We’re all still here.” Then the jailer called for lights, rushed in, and fell down in fear before Paul and Silas. Then he brought them out and asked them, “What must I do to be saved?” They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household.” And they preached the word of the Lord to him and to all in his house. The jailer took care of them immediately, in the middle of the night, and washed their wounds from the lashes. Then he himself was baptized, along with his entire household. He brought them up into his home and set a table for them, and he and his entire household rejoiced greatly that they had come to believe in God.