Part 22

44:016:027 And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.

44:016:028 But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here.

44:016:029 Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas,

44:016:030 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

44:016:031 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

44:016:032 And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house.

44:016:033 And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.

44:016:034 And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.

44:016:035 And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go.

44:016:036 And the keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul, The magistrates have sent to let you go: now therefore depart, and go in peace.

44:016:037 But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.

44:016:038 And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans.

44:016:039 And they came and besought them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the city.

44:016:040 And they went out of the prison, and entered into the house of Lydia: and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them, and departed.

44:017:001 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews:

44:017:002 And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,

44:017:003 Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.

44:017:004 And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.

44:017:005 But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.

44:017:006 And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also;

44:017:007 Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus.

44:017:008 And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city, when they heard these things.

44:017:009 And when they had taken security of Jason, and of the other, they let them go.

44:017:010 And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.

44:017:011 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

44:017:012 Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.

44:017:013 But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up the people.

44:017:014 And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still.