Acts 16:1-18 Then came he to Derbe and to Lystra. And behold, a certain disciple was there named Timothy, a woman's son which was a Jewess and believed: but his father was a Greek.

MSTC⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Then came he to Derbe and to Lystra. And behold, a certain disciple was there named Timothy, a woman's son which was a Jewess and believed: but his father was a Greek. ² Of whom reported well, the brethren of Lystra and of Iconium. ³ The same, Paul would that he should 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 As they went through the cities, they delivered them the decrees for to keep, ordained of the apostles and elders which were at Jerusalem. ⁵ And so were the congregations established in the faith, and increased in number daily. ⁶ 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 they came to Mysia, and sought to go into Bithynia, but the spirit suffered them not. ⁸ Then they went over Mysia, and 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 into Macedonia and help us." ¹⁰ After he had seen the vision, immediately we prepared to go into Macedonia: certified that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them. ¹¹ Then loosed we forth from Troas, and with a straight course came we to Samothrace, and the next day to Neapolis, ¹² and from thence to Philippi, which is the chiefest city in the parts of Macedonia: and a free city. We were in that city abiding a certain days. ¹³ And on the Sabbath days, we went out of the city besides a river where men were wont to pray, and we sat down and spake unto the women which thither resorted. ¹⁴ And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, gave us audience: whose heart the Lord opened that she attended unto the things which Paul spake. ¹⁵ When she was baptised, and her household, she besought us saying, "If ye think that I believe on the Lord come into my house, and abide there." And she constrained us. ¹⁶ And it fortuned as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit that prophesied met us, which brought her master and masters much vantage with prophesying. ¹⁷ The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, "These men are the servants of the most high God, which show unto us the way of salvation." ¹⁸ And this did she many days. But Paul, not content, turned about and said to the spirit, "I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ that thou come out of her." And he came out the same hour.