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Timothy Accompanies Paul and Silas
1#Ac 14:6; 17:14Then he came to Derbe and then to Lystra. A disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed, but his father was a Greek. 2He was well spoken of by the brothers who were at Lystra and Iconium. 3#Gal 2:3Paul wanted him to travel with him. So he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek. 4#Ac 15:28–29; 15:2As they went through the cities, they delivered to them the decrees to observe, that were set forth by the apostles and elders at Jerusalem. 5#Ac 9:31; 2:47So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily.
Paul’s Vision of the Macedonian
6#Ac 18:23; 1Pe 1:1; Gal 1:2They went through the region of Phryg­ia and Galatia and were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. 7#Ro 8:9; Gal 4:6When they came near Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit did not allow them. 8#2Co 2:12; 2Ti 4:13So they passed by Mysia and went down to Troas. 9#Ac 18:5; 19:21During the night a vision appeared to Paul: A man of Macedonia stood and pleaded with him, saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.” 10After he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go into Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them.
The Conversion of Lydia
11From Troas we set sail on a straight course to Samothrace and the next day to Neapolis, 12#Php 1:1; 1Th 2:2and from there to Philippi, which is the main city of that part of Macedonia, and a colony. We stayed in this city several days.
13#Ac 13:14On the Sabbath we went out of the city to a riverside, where prayer was customarily offered. And we sat down and spoke to the women who had assembled. 14#Lk 24:45; Ac 18:7A woman named Lydia, a seller of purple fabric of the city of Thyatira, who worshipped God, heard us. The Lord opened her heart to acknowledge what Paul said. 15#Ac 11:14; Heb 13:2When she and her household were baptized, she entreated us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and remain there.” And she persuaded us.
The Imprisonment in Philippi
16#1Sa 28:7; 1Ch 10:13On one occasion, as we went to the place of prayer, a servant girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling. 17#Mk 5:7; Da 3:26She followed Paul and us, shouting, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation.” 18#Mk 16:17; 1:34She did this for many days. But becoming greatly troubled, Paul turned to the spirit and said, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And it came out at that moment.
19#Ac 21:30; 8:3When her masters saw that the hope of their profits was gone, they seized Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace to the rulers. 20#Ac 28:22And they brought them to the magistrates, saying, “These men, being Jews, greatly trouble our city 21#Est 3:8; Ac 16:12and teach customs which are not lawful for us, being Romans, to receive or observe.”
22#1Th 2:2; 2Co 6:5The crowd rose up together against them. And the magistrates tore the garments off them and gave orders to beat them. 23After they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, commanding the jailer to guard them securely. 24#Job 13:27; 33:11Having received such an order, he threw them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.
25#Job 35:10; Ps 42:8At midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. 26#Ac 4:31; 12:7Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. And immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s shackles were loosened. 27#Ac 12:19When the jailer awoke and saw the prison doors open, he drew his sword and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped. 28But Paul shouted, “Do not harm yourself, for we are all here.”
29He called for lights and rushed in, trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas. 30#Ac 2:37; 22:10He then led them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
31#Mk 16:16; Jn 1:12They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you and your household will be saved.” 32And they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his household. 33#Ac 16:15; 16:25In that hour of the night he took them and washed their wounds. And immediately he and his entire household were baptized. 34#Ac 2:46Then he brought them up to his house and set food before them. And he rejoiced with his entire household believing in God.
35When it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, “Release those men.” 36#Ac 15:33The prison guard reported these words to Paul, saying, “The magistrates have sent to release you. Now therefore depart, and go in peace.”
37#Ac 22:25–29But Paul said to them, “They have publicly beaten us, who are uncondemned Romans, and have thrown us into prison. And now do they secretly throw us out? Certainly not! Let them come themselves and bring us out.”
38#Ac 22:29The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans. 39#Mt 8:34So they came and entreated them. And they brought them out, asking them to leave the city. 40#Ac 16:14They went out of the prison and entered the house of Lydia. When they had seen the brothers, they exhorted them and departed.

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