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Acts 16:24
“who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.”
Verse in context — Acts 16
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The multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates tore their clothes off of them, and commanded them to be beaten with rods.
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When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,
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who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.
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But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
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Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's bonds were loosened.
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