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1 Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, be­hold, a cer­tain dis­ci­ple was there, named Tim­o­theus, the son of a cer­tain wom­an, which was a Jew­ess, and be­lieved; but his fa­ther was a Greek: 2 Which was well re­port­ed of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Ico­ni­um. 3 Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and cir­cum­cised him be­cause of the Jews which were in those quar­ters: for they knew all that his fa­ther was a Greek. 4 And as they went through the cities, they de­liv­ered them the de­crees for to keep, that were or­dained of the apos­tles and el­ders which were at Jerusalem. 5 And so were the church­es es­tab­lished in the faith, and in­creased in num­ber dai­ly. 6 Now when they had gone through­out Phry­gia and the re­gion of Gala­tia, and were for­bid­den of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia, 7 Af­ter they were come to Mysia, they as­sayed to go into Bithy­nia: but the Spir­it suf­fered them not. 8 And they pass­ing by Mysia came down to Troas. 9 And a vi­sion ap­peared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Mace­do­nia, and prayed him, say­ing, Come over into Mace­do­nia, and help us. 10 And af­ter he had seen the vi­sion, im­me­di­ate­ly we en­deav­oured to go into Mace­do­nia, as­sured­ly gath­er­ing that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them. 11 There­fore loos­ing from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samoth­ra­cia, and the next day to Neapo­lis; 12 And from thence to Philip­pi, which is the chief city of that part of Mace­do­nia, and a colony: and we were in that city abid­ing cer­tain days. 13 And on the sab­bath we went out of the city by a riv­er side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the wom­en which re­sort­ed thither. 14 And a cer­tain wom­an named Ly­dia, a sell­er of pur­ple, of the city of Thy­ati­ra, which wor­shipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she at­tend­ed unto the things which were spo­ken of Paul. 15 And when she was bap­tized, and her house­hold, she be­sought us, say­ing, If ye have judged me to be faith­ful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she con­strained us. 16 And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a cer­tain damsel pos­sessed with a spir­it of div­ina­tion met us, which brought her mas­ters much gain by sooth­say­ing: 17 The same fol­lowed Paul and us, and cried, say­ing, These men are the ser­vants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of sal­va­tion. 18 And this did she many days. But Paul, be­ing grieved, turned and said to the spir­it, I com­mand thee in the name of Je­sus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour. 19 And when her mas­ters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the mar­ket­place unto the rulers, 20 And brought them to the mag­is­trates, say­ing, These men, be­ing Jews, do ex­ceed­ing­ly trou­ble our city, 21 And teach cus­toms, which are not law­ful for us to re­ceive, nei­ther to ob­serve, be­ing Ro­mans. 22 And the mul­ti­tude rose up to­geth­er against them: and the mag­is­trates rent off their clothes, and com­mand­ed to beat them. 23 And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charg­ing the jailor to keep them safe­ly: 24 Who, hav­ing re­ceived such a charge, thrust them into the in­ner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks. 25 And at mid­night Paul and Silas prayed, and sang prais­es unto God: and the pris­on­ers heard them. 26 And sud­den­ly there was a great earth­quake, so that the foun­da­tions of the prison were shak­en: and im­me­di­ate­ly all the doors were opened, and ev­ery one's bands were loosed. 27 And the keep­er of the prison awak­ing out of his sleep, and see­ing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed him­self, sup­pos­ing that the pris­on­ers had been fled. 28 But Paul cried with a loud voice, say­ing, Do thy­self no harm: for we are all here. 29 Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trem­bling, and fell down be­fore Paul and Silas, 30 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? 31 And they said, Be­lieve on the Lord Je­sus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. 32 And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house. 33 And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was bap­tized, he and all his, straight­way. 34 And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat be­fore them, and re­joiced, be­liev­ing in God with all his house. 35 And when it was day, the mag­is­trates sent the ser­jeants, say­ing, Let those men go. 36 And the keep­er of the prison told this say­ing to Paul, The mag­is­trates have sent to let you go: now there­fore de­part, and go in peace. 37 But Paul said unto them, They have beat­en us open­ly un­con­demned, be­ing Ro­mans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out priv­i­ly? nay ver­i­ly; but let them come them­selves and fetch us out. 38 And the ser­jeants told these words unto the mag­is­trates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Ro­mans. 39 And they came and be­sought them, and brought them out, and de­sired them to de­part out of the city. 40 And they went out of the prison, and en­tered into the house of Ly­dia: and when they had seen the brethren, they com­fort­ed them, and de­part­ed.