having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling. 016:017 Following Paul and us, she cried out, "These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation!" 016:018 She was doing this for many days. But Paul, becoming greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, "I charge you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!" It came out that very hour. 016:019 But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers. 016:020 When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, "These men, being Jews, are agitating our city, 016:021 and set forth customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans." 016:022 The multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates tore their clothes off of them, and commanded them to be beaten with rods. 016:023 When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely, 016:024 who, having received such a charge, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks. 016:025 But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. 016:026 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. 016:027 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. 016:028 But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, "Don't harm yourself, for we are all here!" 016:029 He called for lights and sprang in, and, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas, 016:030 and brought them out and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" 016:031 They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household." 016:032 They spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in his house. 016:033 He took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household. 016:034 He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God. 016:035 But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, "Let those men go." 016:036 The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, "The magistrates have sent to let you go; now therefore come out, and go in peace." 016:037 But Paul said to them, "They have beaten us publicly, without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison!