Answer: The jailer asked Paul and Silas, "Sirs,
what must I do to be saved?" (verse 30).
MORE INFORMATION AND/OR OTHER SCRIPTURE REFERENCES:
Acts 2:37: "When the people heard
this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other
apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?'"
· From
The Acts of the Apostles From Jerusalem to Rome:
What was this pagan [the jailer] asking? Mere
deliverance from physical harm? That hardly seems
likely--especially in view of the way in which he was answered
by his two famous prisoners. He may have been familiar with
the slave girl's message that these men "proclaim unto
you the Way of salvation." He seems to have interpreted
the earthquake as an act of God, and saw himself in need of divine
mercy. Besides that, all men have an awareness, to some
degree, of their moral imperfection and the need of
something which they themselves do not possess.
