Acts 16:15-33

15When she was immersed, along with her household, she urged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come and stay at my house.” And she insisted.

16It so happened that as we were going to prayer, we met a slave girl who had a spirit of divination, who was bringing her masters much profit from her fortune-telling.

17Following after Paul and us, she kept shouting, saying, “These men are servants of El Elyon, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation.”

18She kept doing this for many days. But Paul was irritated and turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Messiah Yeshua to come out of her!” And it came out of her that very moment.

19But when her masters saw that the hope of profit was gone, they grabbed Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the authorities.

20And when they brought them to the chief authorities, they said, “These men are throwing our city into an uproar! Being Jewish,

21they advocate customs which are not permitted for us to accept or practice, being Romans.”

22Then the crowd joined in the attack on them. So the chief authorities ripped their clothes off them and commanded them to be beaten with rods.

23After inflicting many blows on them, they threw them into prison, ordering the jailer to guard them securely.

24Having received this charge, he threw them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.

25But about midnight, Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

26Suddenly there was such a great earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. Immediately all the doors were unlocked, and everyone’s chains came loose.

27When the jailer woke up and saw the prison doors opened, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing the prisoners had escaped.

28But Paul cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Don’t harm yourself! We’re all here!”

29The jailer called for lights and rushed in; and trembling with fear, he fell down before Paul and Silas.

30After he brought them out, he said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

31They said, “Put your trust in the Lord Yeshua and you will be saved—you and your household!”

32Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him, along with everyone in his household.

33He took them that very hour and washed their wounds, and at once he was immersed—he and all his household.