The Acts of the Emissaries, Chapter 16
{16:1} He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple
was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his
father was a Greek. {16:2} The brothers who were at Lystra and Iconium
gave a good testimony about him. {16:3} Paul wanted to have him go out
with him, and he took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were
in those parts; for they all knew that his father was a Greek. {16:4}
As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered the
decrees to them to keep which had been ordained by the emissaries and
elders who were at Jerusalem. {16:5} So the assemblies were
strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily.
{16:6} When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia,
they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.
{16:7} When they had come opposite Mysia, they tried to go into
Bithynia, but the Spirit didn't allow them. {16:8} Passing by Mysia,
they came down to Troas. {16:9} A vision appeared to Paul in the
night. There was a man of Macedonia standing, begging him, and saying,
"Come over into Macedonia and help us." {16:10} When he had seen the
vision, immediately we sought to go out to Macedonia, concluding that
the Lord had called us to proclaim the Good News to them. {16:11}
Setting sail therefore from Troas, we made a straight course to
Samothrace, and the day following to Neapolis; {16:12} and from there
to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the foremost of the
district, a Roman colony. We were staying some days in this city.
{16:13} On the Sabbath day we went forth outside of the city by a
riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat
down, and spoke to the women who had come together. {16:14} A certain
woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one
who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened to listen to
the things which were spoken by Paul. {16:15} When she and her
household were immersed, she begged us, saying, "If you have judged me
to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay." So she
persuaded us.
{16:16} It happened, as we were going to prayer, that a certain girl
having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much
gain by fortune telling. {16:17} Following Paul and us, she cried out,
"These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way
of salvation!" {16:18} She was doing this for many days.
But Paul, becoming greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit,
"I command you in the name of Yeshua the Messiah to come out of her!"
It came out that very hour. {16:19} But when her masters saw that the
hope of their gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas, and dragged
them into the marketplace before the rulers. {16:20} When they had
brought them to the magistrates, they said, "These men, being Jews,
are agitating our city, {16:21} and set forth customs which it is not
lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans."
{16:22} The multitude rose up together against them, and the
magistrates tore their clothes off of them, and commanded them to be
beaten with rods. {16:23} When they had laid many stripes on them,
they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,
{16:24} who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner
prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.
{16:25} But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing
hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. {16:26}
Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the
prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and
everyone's bonds were loosened. {16:27} The jailer, being roused out
of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was
about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.
{16:28} But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, "Don't harm
yourself, for we are all here!"
{16:29} He called for lights and sprang in, and, fell down trembling
before Paul and Silas, {16:30} and brought them out and said, "Sirs,
what must I do to be saved?"
{16:31} They said, "Believe in the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, and you
will be saved, you and your household." {16:32} They spoke the word of
the Lord to him, and to all who were in his house.
{16:33} He took them the same hour of the night, and washed their
stripes, and was immediately immersed, he and all his household.
{16:34} He brought them up into his house, and set food before them,
and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God.
{16:35} But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants,
saying, "Let those men go."
{16:36} The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, "The
magistrates have sent to let you go; now therefore come out, and go in
peace."
{16:37} But Paul said to them, "They have beaten us publicly,
without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do
they now release us secretly? No, most certainly, but let them come
themselves and bring us out!"
{16:38} The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates, and
they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans, {16:39} and
they came and begged them. When they had brought them out, they asked
them to depart from the city. {16:40} They went out of the prison, and
entered into Lydia's house. When they had seen the brothers, they
encouraged them, and departed.
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