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for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans.
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And the multitude rose up together against
them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat
them.
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And when they
had laid many stripes upon them, they cast
them
into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely:
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Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast
in the stocks.
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And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard
them.
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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 bands were loosed.
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And
the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out
his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.
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But Paul
cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here.
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Then he called for a
light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas,
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And brought them
out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
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And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,
and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
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And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to
all that were in his house.
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And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed
their
stripes;
and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.
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And when he had brought them into his house, he
set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.
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And when it was day,
the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go.
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And the keeper of the prison told
this saying to Paul, The magistrates have sent to let you go: now therefore depart, and go in peace.
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But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have
cast
us
into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves
and fetch us out.
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And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when
they heard that they were Romans.
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And they came and besought them, and brought
them
out,
and desired
them
to depart out of the city.
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And they went out of the prison, and entered into
the
house of
Lydia and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them, and departed.
CHAPTER 17
Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where
was a synagogue of the Jews:
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And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath
days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,
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Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have
suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.
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And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great
multitude, and of the chief women not a few.
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But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of
the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house
of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.
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And when they found them not, they drew
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