But at night the angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and led them out. The angel told them,

"We found the prison securely locked and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside."

Suddenly, there was an earthquake so violent that the foundations of the prison were shaken. All the doors immediately flew open, and everyone's chains were unfastened.

When the jailer woke up and saw the prison doors wide open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, since he thought the prisoners had escaped.

The whole city was in chaos. The people rushed together, grabbed Paul, dragged him out of the Temple, and at once the doors were sealed shut.

"How could you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord?" Peter asked her. "Listen! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and these men will carry you outside as well."

That very night, before Herod was going to bring him out, Peter, bound with two chains, was sleeping between two soldiers, and guards in front of the door were watching the prisoners.

When they arrived, they called the church together and told them everything that God had done with them and how he had opened a door so that gentiles would believe.

Then he left that place and went to the home of a man named Titius Justus, who worshipped God and whose house was next door to the synagogue.