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\subsection{Acts 16}
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\VS{1} Now they attained to Derbe and to Lystra. And behold a certain disciple was
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there by name Timothy, son of a Jewish woman of [the] faith but [a] Greek father,
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\VS{2} who was [well] testified by the brothers in Lystra and Oconia.
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\VS{3} Paul wanted this [one] to come with him, and having received [him]
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we circumcised him because of the Jews being in those places, for they all knew that his father
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was [a] Greek.
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\VS{4} Now as they went through the cities, they delivered them
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the decrees to be guarding, judged by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem.
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\VS{5} Indeed therefore the assemblie\fnEkklhsia{} were strengthened in the faith and
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increased in number daily.
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\VS{6} Now they went through Phrygia and Galaticia regions, having been
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forbidden\footnote{or ``hindered'', ``prevented''} by the Holy Spirit to
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speak the word in Asia.
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\VS{7} So having come by way of Mysia, they tried to
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go to Bithynia, and the spirit of Jesus did not let them,
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\VS{8} so having
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passed through Mysia they went down to Troada.
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\VS{9} And [a] vision was seen
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by Paul in the night, a certain Macedonian man was standing and calling upon
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him and saying: Having come over to Macedonia, help us.
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\VS{10} Now as he
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saw the vision, straightway we sought to go to Macedonia, having inferred
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that God had summoned us to be good-newsing them.
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\VS{11} So having departed
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from Troades, we ran straight to Samothraka, and next to [the] city Nea,
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\VS{12}
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and from there to Phillipi, which is first of the Macedonian district, [a]
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colony. Now we were staying in this city several days.
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\VS{13} And on the
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day of the Sabbaths we went out of the gate beside the river, where we were
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thinking to be [in] prayer; and having sat, we were speaking to the women having
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come together.
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\VS{14} And a certain woman by name Lydia, [a] dealer in purple
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cloth of the city of Thyatira, worshipping God, heard, whose heart the Lord
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opened to be heeding the [things] spoken by Paul.
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\VS{15} Now as she was baptized
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and her house, she called upon [us] saying: If you have judged me to be
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trustworthy to the Lord, having gone into my house, be abiding; and she
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strongly urged us.
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\VS{16} Now it came to pass while we were going to pray,
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a certain maid-servant having [a] spirit of divination met us, who, giving
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oracles, was causing much profit to her Lords.
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\VS{17} This [one], following Paul
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and us, was crying out saying: These men are slaves of the most high God,
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who proclaim to you [the] way of salvation.
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\VS{18} Now she was doing this for
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many days. So Paul having become annoyed and having turned to the spirit he
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said: I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out from her. And it
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came out in that hour.
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\VS{19} So her lords having seen that their hope of profit went out,
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having taken Paul and Silas, they dragged\fnElkuo{} them to the marketplace to the rulers.
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\VS{20} And having brought them to the soldiers they said:
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These men agitate our city, being Jews,
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\VS{21} and they proclaim customs which it is not permissible for us
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to be receiving or doing, [we] being Romans.
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\VS{22} And the crowd rose up against them, and the soldiers having
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torn off their garments, they ordered to be beating them.
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\VS{23} So having
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placed on them many blows, they threw them into prison, having ordered the
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jailer to securely keep them,
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\VS{24} who having received such [an] order, he
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threw them into the innermost prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.
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\VS{25} Now around midnight Paul and Silas praying were singing praise to
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God, and the guards listened to them.
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\VS{26} Now suddenly [a] great earthquake
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came to pass, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken, and
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immediately all the doors were opened, and all the bonds were unfastened.
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\VS{27} So the jailer having become awake, and having drawn his sword he was
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[about] to do away with himself, thinking the prisoners to be
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escaped.\footnote{Roman guards on duty when a prisoner escaped were put to
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death.}
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\VS{28} But Paul called out with [a] great voice saying: You should do
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nothing evil to yourself, for we are all here.
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\VS{29} So having asked\fnAiteo{} lights he ran in, and having become trembling,
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he fell before Paul and Silas,
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\VS{30} and having brought them out he said: Lords, what must I be doing in
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order that I be saved?
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\VS{31} So they said: Believe upon the Lord Jesus,
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and you will be saved, and your house.
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\VS{32} And they spoke the word of the lord with all those in his house.
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\VS{33} So having taken them in that
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hour of the night, he washed [their] wounds, and immediately he was baptized and
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all his [house].
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\VS{34} And having led them up to his house he set [a] table before
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them, and all his household having believed in God rejoiced.
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\VS{35} Now
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when day came to pass, the soldiers sent the policemen saying: Release those
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men.
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\VS{36} Now the jailer reported these words to Paul, that: The soldiers
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have sent that you be released. Now therefore having come out, be going in
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peace.
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\VS{37} But Paul said to them: Having publicly beat us without trial,
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[we] being Romans, they threw us in prison; and now secretly they put us out?
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But no, rather having come they should lead us out.
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\VS{38} So the policemen
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reported these words to the soldiers. Now they feared having heard that they
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are Romans,
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\VS{39} and having come they called upon them, and having led
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them out they were asking\fnErotao{} [them] to depart from the city.
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\VS{40} So having come
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out from the prison they went to Lydia, and having seen the brothers they
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exhorted [them] and went out.
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