<p class="bodytext">About midnight Paul and Silas were praying<n id="1" /> and singing hymns to God,<n id="2" /> and the rest of<n id="3" /> the prisoners were listening to them.

Stay alert, then, because you do not know when the owner of the house will return &#8211; whether during evening, at midnight, when the rooster crows, or at dawn &#8211;

<p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> he said to them, &#8220;Suppose one of you<n id="2" /> has a friend, and you go to him<n id="3" /> at midnight and say to him, &#8216;Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,<n id="4" />

On the first day<n id="1" /> of the week, when we met<n id="2" /> to break bread, Paul began to speak<n id="3" /> to the people, and because he intended<n id="4" /> to leave the next day, he extended<n id="5" /> his message until midnight.