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In Acts 16:16-34,
Paul casts an evil spirit out of a slave girl who could predict the future. The slave girl's owners were upset because they could no longer make a profit off of her. So
Paul and Silas, beaten with rods and flogged, were thrown in prison for what the Romans called "disturbing the city." During the midnight hour as Paul and Silas were in shackles, they were praying and singing hymns to God. Then suddenly, an earthquake came breaking all the chains off from the prisoners, leaving the prison doors wide open for everyone to escape. Paul and Silas could have escaped, but didn't. When
the guard wakes up in
verse 27, he is fearing for his life that all the prisoners had escaped because if they had, he most likely would've lost his life. In verse 28, Paul cries out to the guard and says, "Don't harm yourself, we're all here!" In verse 30, the guard approaches Paul and Silas and asks, "What must I do to be saved?" Scripture says in Acts 16:31-34, that Paul and Silas would tell the guard to,
"Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved - you and your household. And they spoke the word of the Lord to him along with everyone in his household. He took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds. Right away he and all his family were baptized. He brought them into his house, set a meal before them, and rejoiced because he had come to believe in God with his entire family."
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