CHAPTER XIV.
PAUL AND HIS COMPANY AT PHILIPPI ON THEIR FIRST MISSION TO EUROPE.—A.D. 52-53.
1 16:11AND sailing from Troas we came in a direct course to Samothracia, and on the next day to Neapolis, 16:12and thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, [and] a colony. And we spent some days in that city. 16:13And on the sabbath we went out of the gate, by the river, where the proseuche [place of prayer] usually was, and sitting down we spoke to the women who came together. 16:14And a certain woman by the name of Lydia, a dealer in purple, of the city of Thyatira, who worshipped God, heard, whose heart the Lord opened to attend to the [words] spoken by Paul.
2 16:15And when she was baptized, and her house, she requested saying, If you have judged me faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay; and she constrained us.
3 16:16And when we went to the proseuche, a certain female servant having a spirit, a diviner, met us, who brought her masters much gain by divining. 16:17She following Paul and us, cried, saying, These men are servants of the Most High God, who declare to us the way of salvation; 16:18and this she did for many days. And Paul being grieved turned around and said to the spirit, I command you, in the name of Jesus Christ, to come out of her. And it came out of her in that hour. 16:19And her masters seeing that the hope of their gain was gone, seizing Paul and Silas dragged them to the market, to the rulers, 16:20and bringing them before the prefects said, These men, being Jews, greatly trouble the city, 16:21and preach customs which it is not lawful for us, being Romans, to receive or observe. 16:22And the multitude came together against them, and the prefects tearing off their clothes gave orders to beat them with rods, 16:23and having inflicted many blows on them cast them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely; 16:24who, having received such a charge, cast them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
4 16:25But at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and sung praises to God, and the prisoners heard them. 16:26And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and all the doors were immediately opened, and the bands of all were removed. 16:27And the jailer awaking from sleep and seeing the doors of the prison opened, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped. 16:28But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do yourself no harm, for we are all here. 16:29And asking for a light he sprang in, and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas, 16:30and bringing them out said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? 16:31And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you shall be saved, and your house. 16:32And they spoke the word of the Lord to him and all those in his house.
5 16:33And taking them that hour of the night, he washed them from their stripes, and was baptized, he and all his, immediately, 16:34and conducting them up into his house he set a table, and rejoiced with all his house, having believed in God. 16:35And when it was day the prefects sent the lictors, saying, Let those men go. 16:36And the jailer told these words to Paul; The prefects have sent to let you go; now, therefore, go, and depart in peace.
6 16:37But Paul said to him, They have beaten us publicly uncondemned, being Romans, and cast us into prison; and now do they privately cast us out? No, indeed: but let them come themselves and conduct us out. 16:38And the lictors told these words to the prefects, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans; 16:39and they came and besought them, and conducting them out desired them to leave the city. 16:40And going out of the prison they entered into the house of Lydia, and having seen the brothers they exhorted them, and departed.