Acts 16:10-17
10When he had seen athe vision, bwe immediately sought to leave for Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to cpreach the gospel to them. 11 So after setting sail from dTroas, we ran ea straight course to Samothrace, and on the following day to Neapolis; 12and from there to fPhilippi, which is a leading city of the district of gMacedonia, ha Roman colony; and we were spending some days in this city. 13And on ithe 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.First Convert in Europe
14 A woman named Lydia was listening; she was a seller of purple fabrics from the city of jThyatira, and ka worshiper of God. ▼▼Lit Whose heart the Lord opened
The Lord mopened her heart to respond to the things spoken by Paul. 15Now when she and nher 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. 16 It happened that as we were going to othe place of prayer, a slave woman who had pa spirit of divination met us, who was bringing great profit to her masters by fortune-telling. 17She followed Paul and us and cried out repeatedly, saying, “These men are bond-servants of qthe Most High God, who are proclaiming to you a way of salvation.”
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