16 And it was done, when we went to prayer, that a damsel [or a wench] that had a spirit of divination, met us, which gave great winning to her lords in divining.
17 This pursued Paul and us, and cried, and said, These men be servants of the high God, that tell to you the way of health.
18 And this she did in many days. And Paul sorrowed, and turned, and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ, that thou go out of her. And he went out in the same hour.
19 And the lords of her saw, that the hope of their winning went away, and they took Paul and Silas, and led [them] into the chapping, either doom place, to the princes.
20 And they brought them to the magistrates, and said, These men disturb [or distrouble] our city, for they be Jews,
21 and show a custom, which [it] is not leaveful to us to receive, neither do, since we be Romans.
22 And the people and magistrates ran against them, and when they had rent to pieces the coats of them, they commanded them to be beaten with rods.
23 And when they had given to them many wounds, they sent them into prison, and commanded to the keeper, that he should keep them diligently.
24 And when he had taken such a precept, he put them into the inner prison, and restrained the feet of them in a tree.
25 And at midnight Paul and Silas worshipped, and praised God; and they that were in [the] keeping, heard them.
26 And suddenly a great earth-moving was made, so that the foundaments of the prison were moved. And anon all the doors were opened, and the bonds of all were loosed.
27 And the keeper of the prison was awaked, and saw the gates of the prison opened, and with a sword drawn out he would have slain himself, and guessed that the men that were bound had fled.
28 But Paul cried with a great voice, and said, Do thou none harm [or nothing of evil] to thyself, for all we be here.
29 And he asked light, and entered, and trembled, and fell down to Paul and to Silas at their feet.
30 And he brought them withoutforth, and said, Lords, what behooveth me to do, that I be made safe?
31 And they said, Believe thou in the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt be safe, and thine house.
32 And they spake to him the word of the Lord, with all that were in his house.
33 And he took them in the same hour of the night, and washed their wounds. And he was baptized, and all his house anon.
34 And when he had brought them into his house, he set to them a board. And he was glad with all his house, and believed to God.