or we are all here. (29)And
calling for lights, he sprang in, and trembling fell down before Paul
and Silas; (30)and having brought them out, he said: Sirs, what must I
do to be saved? (31)And they said: Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,
and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. (32)And they spoke to him the
word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house.

(33)And taking them along, the same hour of the night, he washed their
stripes; and was immersed, himself and all his, immediately. (34)And
having brought them up into his house, he set food before them, and
rejoiced, with all his house, believing in God.

(35)And when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying:
Let those men go. (36)And the keeper of the prison reported these
words to Paul: The magistrates have sent to let you go; now therefore
depart, and go in peace.

(37)But Paul said to them: They beat us openly, uncondemned, being
Romans, and cast us into prison; and now do they send us forth
secretly? Nay verily; but let them come themselves and bring us out.

(38)And the sergeants reported these words to the magistrates; and
they were afraid, when they heard that they were Romans. (39)And they
came and besought them, and bringing them out, entreated them to
depart out of the city.

(40)And they went out of the prison, and entered into the house of
Lydia; and seeing the brethren they exhorted them, and departed.

XVII.

AND passing through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to
Thessalonica, where was the synagogue of the Jews. (2)And Paul, as his
custom was, went in to them, and for three sabbaths reasoned with them
from the Scriptures, (3)opening them, and setting forth that the
Christ must suffer, and rise again from the dead; and that this is the
Christ, Jesus whom I preach to you. (4)And some of them believed, and
joined themselves to[17:4] Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a
great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.

(5)But the Jews, moved with envy[17:5], having taken to them, of the
idlers in the market-place, certain vicious men, and having gathered a
crowd, set the city in an uproar; and assaulting the house of Jason,
they sought to bring them unto the people. (6)And not finding them,
they dragged Jason and certain brethren before the rulers of the city,
crying: These that have turned the world upside down are come hither
also. (7)Whom Jason has received; and all these are acting contrary to
the decrees of