Around midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening,
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23After laying many blows on them, they threw them into prison and instructed the jailer to keep them under close guard. 24Given such orders, he put them in the innermost cell and fastened their feet in the stocks. 25Around midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening, 26when suddenly there was an earthquake so violent that the foundations of the prison shook. All the doors flew open, and everyone’s chains came loose. 27The jailer woke up, saw the prison doors standing open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, thinking the prisoners had escaped.
