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There was a man of Macedonia standing, begging him, and saying, "Come over into Macedonia and help us." <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>When he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go out to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the Good News to them.</p> <a name="11" id="11"></a><p class="hdg">Lydia Converted at Philippi<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../revelation/2.htm#18">Revelation 2:18-29</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Setting sail therefore from Troas, we made a straight course to Samothrace, and the day following to Neapolis; <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>When she and her household were baptized, 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.</p> <p class="hdg">Paul and Silas in Prison</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Following Paul and us, she cried out, "These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of salvation!" <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>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 Jesus Christ to come out of her!" It came out that very hour.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, "These men, being Jews, are agitating our city, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>and set forth customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates tore their clothes off of them, and commanded them to be beaten with rods. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/16-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/16-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.</p> <p class="hdg">The Conversion of the Jailer</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/16-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/16-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/16-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/16-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, "Don't harm yourself, for we are all here!" <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/16-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>He called for lights and sprang in, and, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/16-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>and brought them out and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/16-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household." <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/16-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>They spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in his house. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/16-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>He took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/16-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God.</p> <p class="hdg">Paul and Silas are Released</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/16-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, "Let those men go." <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/16-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, "The magistrates have sent to let you go; now therefore come out, and go in peace." <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/16-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>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!" <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/16-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/16-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>and they came and begged them. When they had brought them out, they asked them to depart from the city. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/16-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>They went out of the prison, and entered into Lydia's house. When they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them, and departed.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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