1Then he came to Derbe and Lystra. A disciple named Timotheus was there. His mother was a Jewish woman who believed, but his father was a Greek.
2The brothers and sisters at Lystra and Iconium spoke well of him.
3Paul wanted Timotheus to go with him. So he took him and circumcised him, because of the Jews who lived in those parts. They all knew that his father was a Greek.
4As they went through the cities, they gave them the rules to keep that the apostles and elders at Jerusalem had made.
5So the churches were made strong in the faith, and grew in number every day.
6They went through Phrygia and the region of Galatia. The Holy Spirit would not let them preach the word in Asia.
7When they came to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit did not allow them.
8So they passed by Mysia and came down to Troas.
9In the night Paul saw a vision. A man of Macedonia was standing there, begging him, "Come over into Macedonia, and help us."
10After he had seen the vision, we at once tried to go into Macedonia. We were sure that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them.
11So we sailed from Troas and went straight to Samothracia, and the next day to Neapolis.
12From there we went to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, and a colony. We stayed in that city for some days.
13On the sabbath we went out of the city to a riverside, where people used to pray. We sat down and spoke to the women who had come together there.
14A woman named Lydia was listening. She sold purple cloth and was from the city of Thyatira, and she worshipped God. The Lord opened her heart, so that she paid attention to the things Paul said.
15When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay there." And she urged us until we came.
16Once, as we were going to prayer, a servant girl met us who had a spirit of divination. She made her masters much money by telling the future.
17She followed Paul and us, calling out, "These men are the servants of the most high God. They show us the way of salvation."
18She did this for many days. But Paul was troubled. He turned and said to the spirit, "I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her." And it came out that same hour.
19When her masters saw that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the rulers.
20They brought them to the magistrates and said, "These men are Jews, and they are making great trouble in our city."
21"They teach customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to keep, since we are Romans."
22The crowd rose up together against them. The magistrates tore off their clothes and ordered them to be beaten.
23When they had beaten them with many blows, they threw them into prison. They told the jailor to keep them safely.
24Having received such an order, he put them in the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.
26Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the doors were opened, and everyone's chains came loose.
27The keeper of the prison woke up out of his sleep. When he saw the prison doors open, he drew out his sword and was going to kill himself, for he thought the prisoners had escaped.
28But Paul called out with a loud voice, "Do yourself no harm, for we are all here."
30He brought them out and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"
31They said, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, and your household."
32And they spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in his house.
33He took them at that same hour of the night and washed their wounds. Then he and all his family were baptized at once.
34He brought them into his house and set food before them. He was full of joy, believing in God with all his household.
35When it was day, the magistrates sent the officers to say, "Let those men go."
36The keeper of the prison told Paul what was said: "The magistrates have sent word to let you go. So come out now, and go in peace."
37But Paul said to them, "They beat us in public without a trial, though we are Romans, and they threw us into prison. And now do they send us away secretly? No indeed. Let them come themselves and bring us out."
38The officers told these words to the magistrates. They were afraid when they heard that they were Romans.
39They came and spoke gently to them, and brought them out, and asked them to leave the city.
40They went out of the prison and came to the house of Lydia. When they had seen the brothers and sisters, they comforted them, and left.