serves to highlight the powerful impact of the gospel. In the story in Philippi, the work of deliverance through a sign (an exorcism) and a wonder (an earthquake) challenges a community and transforms the lives of an individual slave girl and the household of a jailer. All told, this section is an interesting interlocking of personal narratives: Paul and Silas encounter a slave girl (16:16–18); the slave girl’s owners confront Paul and Silas and drag them before the local political authorities (16:19–21);