A WALK THROUGH THE BOOK OF ACTS
PART XVI - VI
"I, the jailer of the prison in Philippi, had two new prisoners today... I was told to guard them carefuly... For they must not escape... So I had their feet fastened in stocks.... They had been beaten.... But I had not bothered to take care of their wounds.... They must have deserved their beatings.... Anyway, I had then gone home....I was hungry.... It was time for my dinner.... Very soon, thereafter, I had gone to bed...In the morning I would have to take care of all my prisoners.... However, in the middle of the night I was rudely awakened.... I heard a rumbling... It sounded like an earthquake....So I quickly jumped out of bed.. I ran to the prison as fast as I could... To my shock and horror all the prison doors had flown open.... I thought I might as well kill myself... For surely, all the prisoners, including the two new prisoners, would have escaped... To my utter surprise that had not happened.... One of the new prisoners, Paul, called out to me saying all the prisoners were still in their cells....Could that really be true?".... Please read the typed out attachment when you will learn of the earthquake that had affected the prison in Philippi....
ATTACHMENT A WALK THROUGH THE BOOK OF ACTS
PART XVI - VI
The earthquake had woken the jailer of the prison in Philippi up as well. He had not stayed around at the time when his new prisoners Paul and Silas had been worshipping the night before. He had simply put these two prisoners in their cell and had afterwards gone home for dinner as you can read in Acts 16:23-24
After they had been severely flogged, they had been thrown into prison, and the jailer was commanded to guard them carefully. When he received these orders, he put them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.
He had then gone to bed for a good night's sleep because in the morning he would have to go back to the prison to take care of his duties. But then an earthquake had rudely awakened him> Fear had set in that the prison may have been damaged by the earthquake. Moreover, the cell doors may have all opened up. That would mean that all the prisoners would have escaped. And he would be made responsible for their escape. So he had run to the jail only to have his worst fears confirmed for indeed all the prison cell doors were open. But at the very moment that he was about to take his life the voice of the prisoner Paul had been heard throughout the prison saying to him, "Do not kill yourself for we are all here." And they were all there.... No one had escaped!!....
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