25 But at midnight, while 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 very foundations of the prison-house were shaken; and instantly all the doors were opened, and every ones chains fell off.

27 The jailer, roused from sleep, and seeing the doors wide open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, because he thought that the prisoners had escaped.

28 But Paul shouted loudly to him. "Do yourself no harm; for we are all here!"

29 So he called for lights, and sprang in, and, trembling for fear, fell down before Paul and Silas,

30 and brought them out, saying, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"

31 "Believe on the Lord Jesus," they answered, "and you will be saved, you and all your household."

32 Then they spoke the message of the Lord to him, as well as to all who were in his house.

33 And he took them, the same hour of the night, and washed their wounds, and he was baptized at once, he and all his.

34 And after bringing them up into his house, he set food before them, overjoyed with all his household in having believed in God.