Acts 16:9-19

9 ¹A vision appeared to Paul in the night: a man of ²Macedonia was standing and appealing to him, and saying, "Come over to Macedonia and help us."

10 When he had seen ³the vision, immediately ⁴we sought to go into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to ⁵preach the gospel to them.

11 So putting out to sea from ⁶Troas, we ran ⁷a straight course to Samothrace, and on the day following to Neapolis;

12 and from there to ⁸Philippi, which is a leading city of the district of ⁹Macedonia, ¹⁰a Roman colony; and we were staying in this city for some days.

13 And on ¹¹the Sabbath day we went outside the gate to a riverside *, where we were supposing that there would be a place of prayer; and we sat down and began speaking to the women who had assembled.

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14 A woman named Lydia, from the city of ¹²Thyatira, a seller of purple fabrics, ¹³a worshiper of God, was listening; and the Lord ¹⁴opened her heart to respond to the things spoken by Paul.

15 And when she and ¹⁵her household had been baptized, she urged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay." And she prevailed upon us.

16 It happened that as we were going to ¹⁶the place of prayer, a slave-girl having ¹⁷a spirit of divination met us, who was bringing her masters much profit by fortune-telling.

17 Following after Paul and us, she kept crying out, saying, "These men are bond-servants of ¹⁸the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation."

18 She continued doing this for many days. But Paul was greatly annoyed, and turned and said to the spirit, "I command you ¹⁹in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!" And it came out at that very moment.

19 But when her masters saw that their hope of ²⁰profit was gone, they seized ²¹Paul and Silas and ²²dragged them into the market place before the authorities,

Cross References

• 1. Acts 9:10
• 2. Acts 16:10, 12; Acts 18:5; Acts 19:21f, 29; Acts 20:1, 3; Acts 27:2; Romans 15:26
• 3. Acts 9:10
• 4. [we] Acts 16:10-17; Acts 20:5-15; Acts 21:1-18; Acts 27:1-28:16
• 5. Acts 14:7
• 6. Acts 16:8; Acts 20:5; 2 Corinthians 2:12; 2 Timothy 4:13
• 7. Acts 21:1
• 8. Acts 20:6; Philippians 1:1; 1 Thessalonians 2:2
• 9. Acts 16:9, 10; Acts 18:5; Acts 19:21f, 29; Acts 20:1, 3; Acts 27:2; Romans 15:26
• 10. Acts 16:21
• 11. Acts 13:14
• 12. Revelation 1:11; Revelation 2:18, 24
• 13. Acts 13:43; Acts 18:7
• 14. Luke 24:45
• 15. Acts 11:14
• 16. Acts 16:13
• 17. Leviticus 19:31; Leviticus 20:6, 27; Deuteronomy 18:11; 1 Samuel 28:3, 7; 2 Kings 21:6; 1 Chronicles 10:13; Isaiah 8:19
• 18. Mark 5:7
• 19. Mark 16:17
• 20. Acts 16:16; Acts 19:25
• 21. Acts 15:22, 40; Acts 16:25, 29
• 22. Acts 8:3; Acts 17:6; Acts 21:30; James 2:6

Footnotes

• [a] Lit "go out"
• [b] Lit "whose heart the Lord opened"
• [c] Lit "a way"
• [d] Lit "hour"
• [e] Lit "gone out"