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.
CHAPTER XV.
PAUL AND HIS COMPANY AT THESSALONICA, BEREA, AND ATHENS.—A.D. 53.
1 17:1AND travelling through Amphipolis and Apollonia they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. 17:2And according to his custom Paul went in to them, and reasoned with them three sabbaths from the Scriptures, 17:3explaining and asserting that the Christ ought to suffer and to rise from the dead; and that this Jesus whom I preach to you is the Christ. 17:4And some of them believed and adhered to Paul and Silas; of the pious Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few. 17:5But the unbelieving Jews taking certain base men of those about the markets, and exciting a mob, disturbed the city; and coming to the house of Jason sought to bring them out to the people; 17:6but not finding them, they dragged Jason and some brothers to the rulers of the city, crying, These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also, 17:7and Jason has received them; and they all do things contrary to the ordinances of Cæsar, saying that there is another king, Jesus. 17:8And they excited the multitude and the rulers of the city hearing these things, 17:9and taking security of Jason and the rest they let them go.
2 17:10And the brothers immediately, by night, sent away Paul and Silas to Berea; and when they came they went into the synagogue of the Jews; 17:11but these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with all readiness, examining the Scriptures daily [to see] if these things were so. 17:12Many of them therefore believed, both of honorable Grecian women, and of men not a few. 17:13And when the Jews in Thessalonica knew that the word of God was preached by Paul at Berea, they came there exciting the multitudes.