\subsection{Acts 16}
\VS{1} Now they attained to Derbe and to Lystra. And behold a certain disciple was 
there by name Timothy, son of a Jewish woman of [the] faith but [a] Greek father, 
\VS{2} who was [well] testified by the brothers in Lystra and Oconia. 
\VS{3} Paul wanted this [one] to come with him, and having received [him] 
we circumcised him because of the Jews being in those places, for they all knew that his father 
was [a] Greek. 
\VS{4} Now as they went through the cities, they delivered them 
the decrees to be guarding, judged by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem. 
\VS{5} Indeed therefore the assemblie\fnEkklhsia{} were strengthened in the faith and 
increased in number daily.

\VS{6} Now they went through Phrygia and Galaticia regions, having been 
forbidden\footnote{or ``hindered'', ``prevented''} by the Holy Spirit to 
speak the word in Asia. 
\VS{7} So having come by way of Mysia, they tried to 
go to Bithynia, and the spirit of Jesus did not let them, 
\VS{8} so having 
passed through Mysia they went down to Troada. 
\VS{9} And [a] vision was seen 
by Paul in the night, a certain Macedonian man was standing and calling upon 
him and saying: Having come over to Macedonia, help us. 
\VS{10} Now as he 
saw the vision, straightway we sought to go to Macedonia, having inferred 
that God had summoned us to be good-newsing them. 
\VS{11} So having departed 
from Troades, we ran straight to Samothraka, and next to [the] city Nea, 
\VS{12} 
and from there to Phillipi, which is first of the Macedonian district, [a] 
colony. Now we were staying in this city several days. 
\VS{13} And on the 
day of the Sabbaths we went out of the gate beside the river, where we were 
thinking to be [in] prayer; and having sat, we were speaking to the women having 
come together. 
\VS{14} And a certain woman by name Lydia, [a] dealer in purple 
cloth of the city of Thyatira, worshipping God, heard, whose heart the Lord 
opened to be heeding the [things] spoken by Paul. 
\VS{15} Now as she was baptized 
and her house, she called upon [us] saying: If you have judged me to be 
trustworthy to the Lord, having gone into my house, be abiding; and she 
strongly urged us. 
\VS{16} Now it came to pass while we were going to pray, 
a certain maid-servant having [a] spirit of divination met us, who, giving 
oracles, was causing much profit to her Lords. 
\VS{17} This [one], following Paul 
and us, was crying out saying: These men are slaves of the most high God, 
who proclaim to you [the] way of salvation. 
\VS{18} Now she was doing this for 
many days. So Paul having become annoyed and having turned to the spirit he 
said: I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out from her. And it 
came out in that hour. 
\VS{19} So her lords having seen that their hope of profit went out, 
having taken Paul and Silas, they dragged\fnELKUO{} them to the marketplace to the rulers. 
\VS{20} And having brought them to the soldiers they said: 
These men agitate our city, being Jews, 
\VS{21} and they proclaim customs which it is not permissible for us 
to be receiving or doing, [we] being Romans. 
\VS{22} And the crowd rose up against them, and the soldiers having 
torn off their garments, they ordered to be beating them. 
\VS{23} So having 
placed on them many blows, they threw them into prison, having ordered the 
jailer to securely keep them, 
\VS{24} who having received such [an] order, he 
threw them into the innermost prison, and secured their feet in the stocks. 
\VS{25} Now around midnight Paul and Silas praying were singing praise to 
God, and the guards listened to them. 
\VS{26} Now suddenly [a] great earthquake 
came to pass, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken, and 
immediately all the doors were opened, and all the bonds were unfastened. 
\VS{27} So the jailer having become awake, and having drawn his sword he was 
[about] to do away with himself, thinking the prisoners to be 
escaped.\footnote{Roman guards on duty when a prisoner escaped were put to 
death.} 
\VS{28} But Paul called out with [a] great voice saying: You should do 
nothing evil to yourself, for we are all here. 
\VS{29} So having asked\fnAiteo{} lights he ran in, and having become trembling, 
he fell before Paul and Silas, 
\VS{30} and having brought them out he said: Lords, what must I be doing in 
order that I be saved? 
\VS{31} So they said: Believe upon the Lord Jesus, 
and you will be saved, and your house. 
\VS{32} And they spoke the word of the lord with all those in his house.
\VS{33} So having taken them in that 
hour of the night, he washed [their] wounds, and immediately he was baptized and 
all his [house]. 
\VS{34} And having led them up to his house he set [a] table before 
them, and all his household having believed in God rejoiced. 
\VS{35} Now 
when day came to pass, the soldiers sent the policemen saying: Release those 
men. 
\VS{36} Now the jailer reported these words to Paul, that: The soldiers 
have sent that you be released. Now therefore having come out, be going in 
peace. 
\VS{37} But Paul said to them: Having publicly beat us without trial, 
[we] being Romans, they threw us in prison; and now secretly they put us out? 
But no, rather having come they should lead us out. 
\VS{38} So the policemen 
reported these words to the soldiers. Now they feared having heard that they 
are Romans, 
\VS{39} and having come they called upon them, and having led 
them out they were asking\fnErotao{} [them] to depart from the city. 
\VS{40} So having come 
out from the prison they went to Lydia, and having seen the brothers they 
exhorted [them] and went out.
