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but Paul was not in favour of taking along the man who had deserted them in Pamphylia and had refused to share in their work. (Acts 15, 38)
Before Paul left, he chose Silas to accompany him and was commended by the brothers to the grace of God. (Acts 15, 40)
They travelled through Phrygia and the Galatian country, because they had been told by the Holy Spirit not to preach the word in Asia. (Acts 16, 6)
One night Paul had a vision: a Macedonian appeared and kept urging him in these words, 'Come across to Macedonia and help us.' (Acts 16, 9)
Sailing from Troas we made a straight run for Samothrace; the next day for Neapolis, (Acts 16, 11)
and from there for Philippi, a Roman colony and the principal city of that district of Macedonia. (Acts 16, 12)
After a few days in this city we went outside the gates beside a river as it was the Sabbath and this was a customary place for prayer. We sat down and preached to the women who had come to the meeting. (Acts 16, 13)
One of these women was called Lydia, a woman from the town of Thyatira who was in the purple-dye trade, and who revered God. She listened to us, and the Lord opened her heart to accept what Paul was saying. (Acts 16, 14)
After she and her household had been baptised she kept urging us, 'If you judge me a true believer in the Lord,' she said, 'come and stay with us.' And she would take no refusal. (Acts 16, 15)
It happened one day that as we were going to prayer, we were met by a slave-girl who was a soothsayer and made a lot of money for her masters by foretelling the future. (Acts 16, 16)
She did this day after day until Paul was exasperated and turned round and said to the spirit, 'I order you in the name of Jesus Christ to leave that woman.' The spirit went out of her then and there. (Acts 16, 18)
When her masters saw that there was no hope of making any more money out of her, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the market place before the authorities. (Acts 16, 19)
