But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors, and leading them out, he said,

“We found the prison securely locked and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened [the doors], we found no one inside.”

suddenly there was a great earthquake, so [powerful] that the very foundations of the prison were shaken and at once all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were unfastened.

When the jailer, shaken out of sleep, saw the prison doors open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, thinking that the prisoners had escaped.