Acts 16 Background Information with Maps and Images (Picture Study Bible - Acts) Free Bible Online

1 - He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek.

2 - The brothers who were at Lystra and Iconium gave a good testimony about him.

3 - Paul wanted to have him go out with him, and he took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts; for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

4 - As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered the decrees to them to keep which had been ordained by the apostles and elders who were at Jerusalem.

5 - So the assemblies were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily.

6 - When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.

7 - When they had come opposite Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit didn't allow them.

8 - Passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas.

9 - A vision appeared to Paul in the night. There was a man of Macedonia standing, begging him, and saying, "Come over into Macedonia and help us."

10 - When he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go out to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the Good News to them.

11 - Setting sail therefore from Troas, we made a straight course to Samothrace, and the day following to Neapolis;

12 - and from there to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the foremost of the district, a Roman colony. We were staying some days in this city.

13 - On the Sabbath day we went outside of the city by a riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down, and spoke to the women who had come together.