Acts 16:11-15

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

In Philippi, Paul Meets Lydia And She Becomes a Believer

¹¹ And having put-to-sea from Troas, we ran-a-straight-course to Samothrace, and on the following day to Neapolis. ¹² And from there we went to Philippi, which is a city of the first^[a] district of Macedonia, a colony^[b]. And we were spending some days in this city. ¹³ And on the day of the Sabbath, we went outside the gate beside a river where we were supposing that there was a place of prayer^[c]. And having sat-down, we were speaking to the women having come together. ¹⁴ And a certain woman worshiping God— Lydia by name, a purple-fabric-dealer from the city of Thyatira— was listening, whose heart the Lord opened to pay-attention-to the things being spoken by Paul. ¹⁵ And when she and her household were baptized, she urged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be a believer^[d] in the Lord, then having entered into my house, be staying with me”. And she prevailed-upon us.