Acts 16:1-32

¹Then came he to Derba and to Lystra. And beholde a certayne disciple was there named Timotheus a womans sonne which was a Iewas and beleved: but his father was a Greke.

²Of whom reported well the brethren of Lystra and of Iconium.

³The same Paul wolde that he shuld goo forth with him and toke and circumcised him because of the Iewes which were in those quarters: for they knewe all that his father was a Greke.

⁴As they went thorow the cities they delyvered the the decrees for to kepe ordeyned of the Apostles and elders which were at Ierusalem.

⁵And so were the congregacions stablisshed in the fayth and encreased in noumbre dayly.

⁶When they had goone thorow out Phrigia and the region of Galacia and were forbydde of the holy gost to preach the worde in Asia

⁷they came to Misia and sought to goo into Bethinia. But the sprete soffered them not.

⁸Then they went over Misia and cam doune to Troada.

⁹And a vision appered to Paul in the nyght. There stode a man of Macedonia and prayed him sayinge: come into Macedonia and helpe vs.

¹⁰After he had sene the vision immediatly we prepared to goo into Macedonia certified that the lorde had called vs for to preache the gospell vnto them.

¹¹Then lowsed we forth from Troada and with a strayght course came to Samothracia and the nexte daye to Neapolim

¹²and from thence to Philippos which is the chefest citie in the partes of Macedonia and a fre cite. We were in that cite abydynge a certayne dayes.

¹³And on the saboth dayes we went out of the cite besydes a ryver where men were wont to praye and we sate doune and spake vnto the wemen which resorted thyther.

¹⁴And a certayne woman named Lydia a seller of purple of the cite of Thiatira which worshipped God gave vs audience. Whose hert the Lorde opened that she attended vnto the thinges which Paul spake.

¹⁵When she was baptised and her housholde she besought vs sayinge: Yf ye thinke that I beleve on the Lorde come into my housse and abyde there. And she constrayned vs.

¹⁶And it fortuned as we went to prayer a certayn damsell possessed with a sprete that prophesied met vs which brought her master and mastres moche vauntage with prophesyinge.

¹⁷The same folowed Paul and vs and cryed sayinge: these men are the servauntes of the most hye God which shewe vnto vs the waye of salvacion.

¹⁸And this dyd she many dayes. But Paul not content, turned about and sayd to the sprete: I commaunde the in the name of Iesu Christ that thou come out of her. And he came out the same houre.

¹⁹And when her master and mastres sawe that the hope of their gaynes was gone they caught Paul and Sylas and drue the into the market place vnto the rulars

²⁰and brought them to the officers sayinge: These men trouble oure cite which are Iewes

²¹and preache ordinaunces which are not laufull for vs to receave nether to observe seinge we are Romayns.

²²And the people ranne on them and the officers rent their clothes and commaunded them to be beaten with roddes.

²³And when they had beaten them sore they cast them into preson commaundynge the iayler to kepe them surely.

²⁴Which iayler when he had receaved suche commaundment thrust them into the ynner preson and made their fete fast in the stockes.

²⁵At mydnyght Paul and Sylas prayed and lauded God. And the presoners hearde them.

²⁶And sodenly ther was a greate erth quake so that the fonndacion of the preson was shaken and by and by all the dores opened and every mannes bondes were lowsed.

²⁷When the keper of the preson waked out of his slepe and sawe the preson dores open he drue out his swearde and wolde have kylled him selfe supposynge the presoners had bene fledde.

²⁸But Paul cryed with a lowde voyce sayinge: Do thy selfe no harme for we are all heare.

²⁹Then he called for a lyght and sprange in and came tremblynge and fell doune before Paul and Sylas

³⁰and brought them out and sayde: Syrs what must I do to be saved?

³¹And they sayde: beleve on the Lorde Iesus and thou shalt be saved and thy housholde.

³²And they preached vnto him the worde of the Lorde and to all that were in his housse.