Acts 16:27

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 fled.
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John Chrysostom

AD 407
There was an earthquake, that the keeper should be roused from sleep, and the doors flew open, that he should wonder at what had happened: but these things the prisoners saw not: otherwise they would all have fled: but the keeper of the prison was about to slay himself, thinking the prisoners were escaped. But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do yourself no harm: for we are all here

John Chrysostom

AD 407
The keeper was not an evil-disposed man that he thrust them into the inner prison,

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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