5. Day after day the churches grew stronger in faith and increased in number.
6. They traveled through the Phrygian and Galatian territory because they had been prevented by the holy Spirit from preaching the message in the province of Asia.
7. When they came to Mysia, they tried to go on into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them,
8. so they crossed through Mysia and came down to Troas.
9. During [the] night Paul had a vision. A Macedonian stood before him and implored him with these words, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”
10. When he had seen the vision, we sought passage to Macedonia at once, concluding that God had called us to proclaim the good news to them.
11. We set sail from Troas, making a straight run for Samothrace, and on the next day to Neapolis,
12. and from there to Philippi, a leading city in that district of Macedonia and a Roman colony. We spent some time in that city.
13. On the sabbath we went outside the city gate along the river where we thought there would be a place of prayer. We sat and spoke with the women who had gathered there.
14. One of them, a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth, from the city of Thyatira, a worshiper of God, listened, and the Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what Paul was saying.
15. After she and her household had been baptized, she offered us an invitation, “If you consider me a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my home,” and she prevailed on us.
16. As we were going to the place of prayer, we met a slave girl with an oracular spirit, who used to bring a large profit to her owners through her fortune-telling.
17. She began to follow Paul and us, shouting, “These people are slaves of the Most High God, who proclaim to you a way of salvation.”
18. She did this for many days. Paul became annoyed, turned, and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” Then it came out at that moment.
19. When her owners saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them to the public square before the local authorities.