[16:25] But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. [16:26] Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's bonds were loosened. [16:27] The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped. [16:28] But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, "Don't harm yourself, for we are all here!"
[16:29] He called for lights and sprang in, and, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas, [16:30] and brought them out and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"
[16:31] They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household." [16:32] They spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in his house.
[16:33] He took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household. [16:34] He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God.
[16:35] But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, "Let those men go."
[16:36] The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, "The magistrates have sent to let you go; now therefore come out, and go in peace."
[16:37] But Paul said to them, "They have beaten us publicly, without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do they now release us secretly? No, most certainly, but let them come themselves and bring us out!"
[16:38] The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans, [16:39] and they came and begged them. When they had brought them out, they asked them to depart from the city. [16:40] They went out of the prison, and entered into Lydia's house. When they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them, and departed.
[17:1] Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue. [17:2] Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures, [17:3] explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ."
[17:4] Some of them were persuaded, and joined Paul and Silas, of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women. [17:5] [But the unpersuaded Jews took along] some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people. [17:6] When they didn't find them, they dragged Jason and certain [brothers] before the rulers of the city, crying, "These who have turned the world upside down have come here also, [17:7] whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!" [17:8] The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things. [17:9] When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go. [17:10] The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.