Acts 16:28

But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here.

The fact of none of the prisoners having fled is itself remarkable, showing that they responded to Paul's evident insistence that none should seek to escape, which would appear from Paul's ability in this matter to speak for all of them.

There having been no light in the dungeon, some have wondered how Paul saw the jailer; but Harrison observed that "Paul from the inner prison could see the outline of the jailer in the doorway."[16] If the doorway was on a line between the jail and the jailer's residence (lights had already been lighted in the residence), Paul's seeing what was going on would have been quite easy.