And he came also to Derbe and to Lystra. And behold, a certain disciple named Timothy was there, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but of a Greek father;

He was well attested to by the brothers in Lystra and Iconium.

Paul wanted this one to go forth with him; and he took him and  ¹circumcised him  ²because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

And as they went through the cities, they delivered to them the decrees to keep which had been decided upon by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem.

And so the  ¹churches were strengthened in the faith and increased in number daily.

And they passed through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden  ¹by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.

And when they had come to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, yet the  ¹Spirit of Jesus did  ²not allow them.

And bypassing Mysia, they came down to Troas.

And a  ¹vision appeared to Paul during the night: A certain man, a Macedonian, was standing and entreating him and saying, Come over into  ²Macedonia and help us.

And when he had seen the vision,  ¹we immediately  ²endeavored to go forth into Macedonia,  ³concluding that God had called us to announce the gospel to them.

And putting out to sea from  ¹Troas, we ran a straight course to  ²Samothrace, and on the following day to  ³Neapolis,

And from there to Philippi, which is the leading city of that part of Macedonia, a Roman  ¹colony; and we spent some days in this city.

And on the  ¹Sabbath day we went outside the gate by the river, where we supposed there would be a place of  ²prayer; and we sat down and spoke to the women who had come together.

And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple-dyed goods from the city of Thyatira who worshipped God, was listening, whose heart the  ¹Lord opened to give heed to the things being spoken by Paul.

And when she was  ¹baptized, as well as her household, she entreated us, saying, If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord,  ²come into my  ³house and abide. And she constrained us.

And as we were going to the place of prayer, a certain slave girl having a  ¹spirit of  ²Python met us, who brought her masters much profit by  ³divining.

This woman followed after Paul and us and cried out, saying, These men are slaves of the Most High God, who announce to you a way of salvation.

And she did this for many days. But Paul was greatly disturbed; and turning, he said to the spirit, I charge you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And it came out that very hour.

But when her masters saw that their hope of profit had gone out, they laid hold of Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.

And when they had brought them to the  ¹magistrates, they said, These men, being Jews, are throwing our city into confusion,

And they are announcing customs which are not lawful for us, being Romans, to accept or do.

And the crowd rose up together against them, and the magistrates tore off their garments and ordered some to beat them with rods.

And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them securely,

Who, having received such a charge, threw them into the inner prison and secured their feet in the  ¹stocks.

And about midnight Paul and Silas, while praying, sang hymns of praise to God; and the prisoners were listening to them.

And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison house were shaken. And instantly all the doors were opened and everyone's bonds were unfastened.

And the jailer, waking up out of his sleep and seeing the doors of the prison opened, drew his sword and was about to do away with himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.

But Paul called out with a loud voice, saying, Do no harm to yourself, for we are all here.

And the jailer asked for lights and rushed in; and trembling, he fell down before Paul and Silas.

And leading them outside, he said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you shall be saved, you and your  ¹household.

And they spoke the word of God to him together with all those in his house.

And he took them with him in that very hour of the night and washed their wounds. And he was  ¹baptized immediately, he and all his household.

And he brought them  ¹up  ²into his house and set a table before them; and he exulted because he had believed in God with all his household.

Now when day came, the magistrates sent the  ¹lictors, saying, Release those men.

And the jailer reported these words to Paul: The magistrates have sent that you may be released. Now therefore come out and go in peace.

But Paul said to them, They have beaten us publicly, uncondemned, men who are Romans, and have thrown us into prison; and now secretly they are thrusting us out? No indeed! But let them come themselves and bring us out.

And the lictors reported these words to the magistrates. And they became frightened when they heard that they were Romans.

And they came and entreated them. And when they had brought them out, they asked them to depart from the city.

And they went out from the prison and entered the house of Lydia; and when they saw the brothers, they exhorted them and went forth.

And they traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia and came to  ¹Thessalonica, where there was a  ²synagogue of the JEWS.

And according to his custom Paul  ¹went in to them, and on three Sabbaths he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

Opening and setting before them that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead, and saying, This is the Christ, the Jesus whom I announce to you.

And some of them were persuaded and  ¹were joined to Paul and Silas, as well as a great multitude of the devout Greeks, and of the chief women not a few.

But the Jews, becoming jealous and taking along some evil men from among the loafers in the marketplace, gathered a crowd and set the city in an uproar; and coming upon the house of Jason, they sought to bring them to the populace.

But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brothers before the city officials, shouting, These men who have upset the  ¹world have come here also,

Whom Jason has welcomed; and these all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.

And they stirred up the crowd and the city officials, who listened to these things.

And when they had taken bail from Jason and the rest, they released them.

And the brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away during the night to Berea, who, when they arrived, went off into the synagogue of the JEWS.

Now these people were more  ¹noble than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

Therefore many of them believed, and there were not a few Greek women of high standing and men.

But when the Jews from Thessalonica found out that the word of God had been announced by Paul in Berea also, they came there as well, agitating and stirring up the crowds.

And immediately the brothers then sent Paul off, to go as far as the sea; and Silas and Timothy remained there.

And those who conducted Paul brought him as far as  ¹Athens; and receiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him as quickly as possible, they went off.

And while Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his  ¹spirit was provoked within him as he beheld that the city was  ²full of idols.

He reasoned therefore in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there.

And some of the  ¹Epicurean and  ²Stoic philosophers also confronted him. And some said, What would this  ³babbler wish to say? And others, He seems to be an announcer of foreign  ⁴deities — because he was announcing Jesus and the resurrection as the gospel.

And they took hold of him and led him to the  ¹Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new teaching is which is being spoken by you?

For you are bringing strange things to our ears. We intend to know therefore  ¹what these things mean.

(Now all the Athenians and the foreigners sojourning there spent their time on nothing other than telling or hearing something new.)

And Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said,  ¹Men of Athens, I observe that in every way you  ²very much revere your deities.

For while I was passing through and carefully observing the objects of your worship, I even found an altar on which was inscribed, To An UNKNOWN God. What therefore you worship without knowing, this I announce to you.

The  ¹God who made the world and all things in it, this One, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands;

Neither is He served by human hands as though He needed anything in addition, since He Himself gives to all life and breath and all things.

And He made from  ¹one every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, determining beforehand their  ²appointed seasons and the boundaries of their dwelling,

That they might seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, even though He is  ¹not far from each one of us;

For  ¹in Him we live and move and are, as even some  ²poets among you have said, For we are also  ³His  ⁴race.

Being then the race of God, we ought not to suppose that  ¹what is divine is like gold or silver or stone, like an engraving of art and  ²thought of man.

Therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, God now  ¹charges all men everywhere to repent,

Because He has set a  ¹day in which He is to judge the world in righteousness by the man whom He has designated, having furnished  ²proof to all by raising Him from the dead.

And when they heard of a resurrection of the dead, some scoffed; and others said, We will hear you yet again concerning this.

Thus Paul went out from their midst.

But some men joined him and believed, among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.

After these things he departed from Athens and came to Corinth.

And having found a certain Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, recently come from Italy, and Priscilla his wife (because  ¹Claudius had ordered all the Jews to depart from Rome), he went to them.

And because he was of the same trade, he remained with them and worked; for they were tentmakers by trade.

And he reasoned  ¹in the  ²synagogue every  ³Sabbath, persuading both Jews and  ⁴Greeks.

And  ¹when both Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was  ²constrained by the word, solemnly testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

But when they resisted and blasphemed, he shook out his garments and said to them, Your blood be upon your head; I am clean. From now on I will  ¹go to the Gentiles.

And he left there and went into the house of one named Titius Justus, one who worshipped God, whose house was next to the synagogue.

And Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with his whole  ¹household; and many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.

And the Lord said to Paul in the night by a  ¹vision, Do not be afraid, but speak and do not be silent;

Because I Myself am with you, and no one will assail you to harm you, because I have many people in this city.

And he  ¹remained there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

But while Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews rose up against Paul with one accord and brought him to the judgment seat,

Saying, This man incites men to worship God contrary to the law.

But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, If it were a matter of wrongdoing or some wicked crime, O Jews, I would for that reason tolerate you;

But if there are questions concerning words and names and your own law, look after it yourselves. A judge of these things I do not intend to be.

And he drove them away from the judgment seat.

And they all laid hold of  ¹Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the judgment seat. And Gallio was not concerned about any of these things.

And Paul, having remained there yet a considerable number of days, took leave of the brothers and sailed away to Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila, having shorn his head in Cenchrea, for he had a  ¹vow.

And they arrived at Ephesus, and he left them there; but he  ¹entered into the synagogue and reasoned with the JEWS.

And when they asked him to remain for a longer time, he did not consent;

But taking leave of them and saying, I will come back to you again, God willing,

he put out to sea from Ephesus.

And coming down to Caesarea, he went up to Jerusalem and greeted the church and  ¹went down to Antioch.

And when he had spent some time there, he  ¹went off, passing through the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, confirming all the disciples.

And a certain Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, an eloquent man, arrived at Ephesus, and he was powerful in the Scriptures.

This man was instructed in the  ¹way of the Lord, and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, though he knew  ²only the baptism of John.

And this man began to speak boldly in the synagogue. And when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him to themselves and expounded the way of God to him more accurately.

And when he intended to pass through into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him; and when he arrived there, he helped much through  ¹grace those who had believed;

For he vigorously confuted the Jews publicly, showing by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.