¹⁰When he had seen the vision, we immediately tried to cross over to Macedonia, being convinced that God had called us to proclaim the good news to them.^*

The Conversion of Lydia

¹¹We thereforeⁱ set sail from Troas and took a straight course to Samothrace, the following day to Neapolis,^* ¹²and from there to Philippi, which is a leading city of the district of Macedonia and a Roman colony. We remained in this city for some days.^* ¹³On the Sabbath day we went outside the gate by the river, where we supposed^j there was a place of prayer, and we sat down and spoke to the women who had gathered there. ¹⁴A certain woman named Lydia, a worshiper of God, was listening to us; she was from the city of Thyatira and a dealer in purple cloth. The Lord opened her heart to listen eagerly to what was said by Paul. ¹⁵When she and her household were baptized, she urged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come and stay at my home.” And she prevailed upon us.^*

Paul and Silas in Prison

¹⁶One day as we were going to the place of prayer, we met a female slave who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners a great deal of money by fortune-telling.^* ¹⁷While she followed Paul and us, she would cry out, “These men are slaves of the Most High God, who proclaim to you^k the way of salvation.”^*

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Footnotes

iOther ancient authorities lack therefore
jOther ancient authorities read where, according to the custom,
kOther ancient authorities read to us

Cross references

*2 Cor 2:13
*v 8; 2 Tim 4:13
*Acts 18:5; 19:21, 22, 29; 20:1, 3; 27:2; Phil 1:1
*Lk 24:29; Acts 11:14
*Deut 18:11; 1 Sam 28:3, 7
*Mk 5:7