Chiasm

Acts 16:31–34

Acts 16:31–343 matched frames1 pivot

Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.

A 31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
- B 32 And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house.
  - C 33a And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes;
    - D 33b and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.
  - C' 34a And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and immediately
- B' 34b rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.
A' 34b rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.