Paul and Silas in Jail

"Paul and Silas in Jail"
Single by Washington Phillips
A-side "Mother's Last Word to Her Son"
Format 10" 78rpm single
Recorded December 2, 1927; Dallas, TX
Genre Gospel blues
Length 2:43
Label Columbia 14369-D
Writer(s) Washington Phillips
Producer(s) Frank B. Walker [1]
Washington Phillips singles chronology
"Denomination Blues" Parts 1 and 2 "Mother's Last Word to Her Son" / "Paul and Silas in Jail" "Jesus Is My Friend" / "What Are They Doing in Heaven Today"

"Paul and Silas in Jail" is a gospel blues song written by Washington Phillips (18801954), and recorded by him (vocals and zither) in 1927.[2]

Description

The song is in strophic form, and consists of five quatrains in rhyming couplets. According to the Acts of the Apostles, St. Paul and Silas were in Philippi (a former city in present-day Greece), where they were arrested, flogged, and imprisoned for causing a public nuisance. The song relates what happened next, as recorded in Acts 16:25-31:

25. And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.
26. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.
27. And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.
28. But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here.
29. Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas,
30. And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
31. And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

As of 2015, the song does not seem to have been recorded by any other artist.

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