Acts 16:11-34

Revised Geneva Translation

¹¹ Then went we forth from Troas. And with a straight course, we came to Samothrace, and the next day to Neapolis;

¹² and from there to Philippi (which is the chief city in the parts of Macedonia, and whose inhabitants came from Rome to dwell there). And we stayed in that city some days.

¹³ And on the Sabbath day, we went out of the city, to a riverside where they customarily prayed. And we sat down and spoke to the women who had come together.

¹⁴ And a certain woman named Lydia (a seller of purple, of the city of the Thyatirians), who worshipped God, heard us. The Lord opened her heart, so that she paid attention to the things which Paul spoke.

¹⁵ And when she was baptized, and her household, she implored us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay.” And she insisted.

¹⁶ And it happened that as we went to prayer, a certain maid having a spirit of divination (who made her masters much money with divining) met us.

¹⁷ She followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, “These men are the servants of the Most High God, who show to you the way of salvation!”

¹⁸ And she did this for many days. But Paul, being annoyed, turned around and said to the spirit, “I command you in the Name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” And it came out the same hour.

¹⁹ Now when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace, to the Magistrates.

²⁰ And they brought them to the governors, saying, “These Jewish men trouble our city,

²¹ “and preach ordinances which are not lawful for us to receive, nor to observe, seeing we are Romans!”

²² Then the people rose up together against them. And the governors tore their clothes and commanded them to be beaten with rods.

²³ And when they had beaten them terribly, they cast them into prison, commanding the jailer to guard them securely

²⁴ (who, having received such a commandment, cast them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks).

²⁵ Now at midnight, Paul and Silas prayed, and sang Psalms to God. And the prisoners heard them.

²⁶ And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundation of the prison was shaken. And immediately all the doors opened. And all the shackles were loosened.

²⁷ Then the keeper of the prison awoke from his sleep. And when he saw the prison doors open, he drew out his sword and was about to kill himself (having assumed that the prisoners had escaped).

²⁸ But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, “Do yourself no harm! For we all are here!”

²⁹ Then he called for a light and rushed in, trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas.

³⁰ And he brought them out, and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

³¹ And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you and your household shall be saved.”

³² And they preached the Word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in the house.

³³ Afterward, that same hour of the night, he took them and washed their wounds. And he was baptized immediately, with all who belonged to him.

³⁴ And when he had brought them into his house, he set food before them, and rejoiced that he, with all his household, believed in God.