Acts 16:10–17

¹⁰After^r he had seen the vision, we immediately made efforts to set out for Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.

LYDIA’S CONVERSION

¹¹From Troas we put out to sea and sailed straight for Samothrace, the next day to Neapolis, ¹²and from there to Philippi,^s a Roman colony and a leading city of the district of Macedonia. We stayed in that city for several days. ¹³On the Sabbath day we went outside the city gate by the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and spoke to the women gathered there. ¹⁴A God-fearing woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, was listening. The Lord opened her heart to respond to what Paul was saying.^{t 15}After she and her household were baptized, she urged us, “If you consider me a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house.”^u And she persuaded us.

PAUL AND SILAS IN PRISON

¹⁶Once, as we were on our way to prayer, a slave girl met us who had a spirit by which she predicted the future.^v She made a large profit for her owners by fortune-telling. ¹⁷As she followed Paul and us she cried out, “These men, who are proclaiming to you^A a way of salvation, are the servants of the Most High God.”