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So after setting sail from ^(C1)Troas, we ran ^(C2)a straight course to Samothrace, and on the following day to Neapolis;

and from there to ^(C1)Philippi, which is a leading city of the district of ^(C2)Macedonia, ^(C3)a Roman colony; and we were spending some days in this city.

And on ^(C1)the Sabbath day we went outside the gate to a riverside, where we were thinking that there was a place of prayer; and we sat down and began speaking to the women who had assembled.

A woman named Lydia was listening; she was a seller of purple fabrics from the city of ^(C1)Thyatira, and ^(C2)a worshiper of God. ^(F1)The Lord ^(C3)opened her heart to respond to the things spoken by Paul.

Now when she and ^(C1)her household had been baptized, she urged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay." And she prevailed upon us.

It happened that as we were going to ^(C1)the place of prayer, a slave woman who had ^(C2)a spirit of divination met us, who was bringing great profit to her masters by fortune-telling.

She followed Paul and us and cried out repeatedly, saying, "These men are bond-servants of ^(C1)the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you a way of salvation."