First Reading: Acts 16:22-34

²² The crowd joined in attacking them; and the magistrates tore the garments off them and gave orders to beat them with rods.
²³ And when they had inflicted many blows upon them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely.
²⁴ Having received this charge, he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.
²⁵ But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,
²⁶ and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and every one’s fetters were unfastened.
²⁷ When the jailer woke and saw that the prison doors were open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.
²⁸ But Paul cried with a loud voice, “Do not harm yourself, for we are all here.”
²⁹ And he called for lights and rushed in, and trembling with fear he fell down before Paul and Silas,
³⁰ and brought them out and said, “Men, what must I do to be saved?”
³¹ And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
³² And they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all that were in his house.
³³ And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their wounds, and he was baptized at once, with all his family.
³⁴ Then he brought them up into his house, and set food before them; and he rejoiced with all his household that he had believed in God.