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At Midnight Paul and Silas Sang
Acts 16:16-40
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This song belongs to the Acts collection. One recording is available to play here, with the complete lyrics below.
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Acts 16: Closed routes lead to an open house and an opened prison
The Book of Acts, chapter 16, advances by closed routes as much as open ones. Timothy joins the mission without undoing the Jerusalem decision, proposed journeys into Asia and Bithynia are blocked, and a vision redirects the company to Macedonia. At Philippi, the first named welcome comes through Lydia and her household, while the next major encounter begins with the destruction of a profitable form of exploitation and ends in a beating and prison. The midnight earthquake opens every door, yet the prisoners remain, preserving the jailer's life and creating a new household of instruction and hospitality. The morning release then becomes a legal reversal when Paul invokes Roman citizenship, requiring the magistrates to acknowledge publicly what they had done publicly.
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