To the right sits a picture of Bacchus/Dionysius, from whose section in Bulfinch’s mythology I draw the following comparison.  First
the quote:

Pentheus here exclaimed, “We have wasted time enough on this silly story. Take him away and have him executed without delay.” Acetes was led away by the attendants and shut up fast in prison; but while they were getting ready the instruments of execution the prison doors came open of their own accord and the chains fell from his limbs, and when they looked for him he was nowhere to be found.
— Bulfinch’s Mythology, chp. 21: Bacchus & Ariadne

Orators get arrested for boring Pentheus with a story, and are ordered to execution.  The doors fling open, and they run free.

Sound familiar?  How about:

“²²The crowd joined in the attack against Paul and Silas, and the magistrates ordered them to be stripped and beaten. ²³After they had been severely flogged, they were thrown into prison, and the jailer was commanded to guard them carefully. ²⁴Upon receiving such orders, he put them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.

²⁵About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them. ²⁶Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everybody’s chains came loose. ²⁷The jailer woke up, and when he saw the prison doors open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself because he thought the prisoners had escaped. ²⁸But Paul shouted, “Don’t harm yourself! We are all here!”  — Acts 16:22-28 (niv)

No wonder the jailers feared for their lives.  In their myths, the last time a jail cell miraculously opened, the prisoners escaped.  Not only does their logic betray them, their own stories about the gods do.  Paul and Silas subvert the myth by staying, and when the jailer discovers that the gods aren’t angry, his natural question results:

“What must I do to be saved?”