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11 Then we set sail from Troas, and with a straight course went to Samothrace, and the next day to Neapolis, 12 and from there to Philippi, which is the chief city in the parts of Macedonia, and a Roman colony.

We were in that city for several days. 13 And on the Sabbath days we went out of the city, beside a river where people were accustomed to pray. And we sat down and spoke to the women who gathered there. 14 And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple from the city of Thyatira who worshipped God, listened to us, and the Lord opened her heart so that she attended to the things that Paul said. 15 When she was baptized, and her household, she invited us, saying, If you think that I believe on the Lord, come into my house and stay there. And she constrained us.

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