The midnight deliverance: the jailer becomes a Christian

^25-28 But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God while the other prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was a great earthquake, big enough to shake the foundations of the prison. Immediately all the doors flew open and everyone’s chains were unfastened. When the jailer woke and saw that the doors of the prison had been opened he drew his sword and was on the point of killing himself, for he imagined that all the prisoners had escaped. But Paul called out to him at the top of his voice, “Don’t hurt yourself—we are all here!”

²⁹ Then the jailer called for lights, rushed in, and trembling all over, fell at the feet of Paul and Silas.

³⁰ He led them outside, and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”