11. READ: ACTS 16:16-40
b. What did the jailer ask Paul and Silas?
Answer: The jailer asked Paul and Silas, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" (verse 30).
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.