On the Sabbath day we went outside the city gate to the side of the river, where we thought there would be a place of prayer, and we sat down and began to speak to the women who had assembled there.

Suddenly a great earthquake occurred, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. Immediately all the doors flew open, and the bonds of all the prisoners came loose.

At that hour of the night he took them and washed their wounds; then he and all his family were baptized right away.

The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, “The magistrates have sent orders to release you. So come out now and go in peace.”

While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was greatly upset because he saw the city was full of idols.

The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands,

Crispus, the president of the synagogue, believed in the Lord together with his entire household, and many of the Corinthians who heard about it believed and were baptized.

Now while Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews attacked Paul together and brought him before the judgment seat,

This went on for two years, so that all who lived in the province of Asia, both Jews and Greeks, heard the word of the Lord.

But the evil spirit replied to them, “I know about Jesus and I am acquainted with Paul, but who are you?”

He gathered these together, along with the workmen in similar trades, and said, “Men, you know that our prosperity comes from this business.

After the disturbance had ended, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them and saying farewell, he left to go to Macedonia.

serving the Lord with all humility and with tears, and with the trials that happened to me because of the plots of the Jews.

On the next day we left and came to Caesarea, and entered the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.

He came to us, took Paul’s belt, tied his own hands and feet with it, and said, “The Holy Spirit says this: ‘This is the way the Jews in Jerusalem will tie up the man whose belt this is, and will hand him over to the Gentiles.’”

(For they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him previously, and they assumed Paul had brought him into the inner temple courts.)

He immediately took soldiers and centurions and ran down to the crowd. When they saw the commanding officer and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

Those who were with me saw the light, but did not understand the voice of the one who was speaking to me.

Paul called one of the centurions and said, “Take this young man to the commanding officer, for he has something to report to him.”

Paul said in his defense, “I have committed no offense against the Jewish law or against the temple or against Caesar.”