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A:Acts chapter 16 says that Paul was imprisoned in Philippi and that while praying at night, an earthquake freed him and Silas, although as honourable men they refused to escape. However, it is not as simple as that. An important, well disguised theme of Acts of the Apostles is the primacy of St Peter over St Paul during the period of their respective ministries. Paul was released from prison by a timely earthquake that arguably need not have been of divine origin, but Peter was released from prison twice by angels, who in one case accompanied Peter from the prison. Both this and the story of Paul's conversion on the road to Damascus appear to have been inspired by the ancient play known as the Bacchae,by Euripides (d. 406 BCE).

Paul himself never mentions this episode, so we should really assume that he was never freed by an earthquake while in prison.

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