Thencame he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certaindisciple was there, namedTimotheus, the son of a certainwoman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek:
Him wouldPaulhave to go forthwith him; and took and circumcised him because of the Jewswhichwere in thosequarters: for theyknew all that his father was a Greek.
And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go intoMacedonia, assuredlygatheringthat the Lord had called us for to preach the gospeluntothem.
And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a riverside, whereprayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spakeunto the womenwhichresortedthither.
And a certainwomannamedLydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, whichworshipped God, heard us: whoseheart the Lordopened, that she attendedunto the thingswhichwerespoken of Paul.
And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye havejudged me to be faithful to the Lord, comeinto my house, and abidethere. And she constrained us.
And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certaindamselpossessedwith a spirit of divination met us, whichbrought her mastersmuchgain by soothsaying:
And this did she manydays. But Paul, beinggrieved, turned and said to the spirit, I commandthee in the name of JesusChrist to come out of her. And he came out the samehour.
And suddenlythere was a greatearthquake, so that the foundations of the prisonwereshaken: and immediately all the doorswereopened, and everyone’sbandswereloosed.
And the keeper of the prisonawaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prisondoorsopen, he drew out his sword, and wouldhavekilledhimself, supposingthat the prisoners had beenfled.
But Paulsaiduntothem, Theyhavebeaten us openlyuncondemned, beingRomans, and havecast us intoprison; and now do theythrust us out privily? nay verily; but let themcomethemselves and fetch us out.