A<n id="1" /> woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth<n id="2" /> from the city of Thyatira,<n id="3" /> a God-fearing woman, listened to us.<n id="4" /> The Lord opened her heart to respond<n id="5" /> to what Paul was saying.

When they had crossed over<n id="1" /> the whole island as far as Paphos,<n id="2" /> they found a magician, a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus,<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">Now there was a disciple in Damascus named Ananias. The<n id="1" /> Lord<n id="2" /> said to him in a vision, &#8220;Ananias,&#8221; and he replied, &#8220;Here I am,<n id="3" /> Lord.&#8221;

A<n id="1" /> vision appeared to Paul during the night: A Macedonian man was standing there<n id="2" /> urging him,<n id="3" /> &#8220;Come over<n id="4" /> to Macedonia<n id="5" /> and help us!&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> as we were going to the place of prayer, a slave girl met us who had a spirit that enabled her to foretell the future by supernatural means.<n id="2" /> She<n id="3" /> brought her owners<n id="4" /> a great profit by fortune-telling.<n id="5" />

A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting in the window,<n id="1" /> was sinking<n id="2" /> into a deep sleep while Paul continued to speak<n id="3" /> for a long time. Fast asleep,<n id="4" /> he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead.

and he has seen in a vision<n id="1" /> a man named Ananias come in and place his hands on him so that he may see again.&#8221;

Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled<n id="1" /> forty years.

Some of them were persuaded<n id="1" /> and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large group<n id="2" /> of God-fearing Greeks<n id="3" /> and quite a few<n id="4" /> prominent women.

because he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and a significant number of people<n id="1" /> were brought to the Lord.

So Joseph, a Levite who was a native of Cyprus, called by the apostles Barnabas (which is translated &#8220;son of encouragement&#8221;),<n id="1" />

I have<n id="1" /> a hope in God (a hope<n id="2" /> that<n id="3" /> these men<n id="4" /> themselves accept too) that there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.<n id="5" />

if<n id="1" /> we are being examined<n id="2" /> today for a good deed<n id="3" /> done to a sick man &#8211; by what means this man was healed<n id="4" /> &#8211;

But some people<n id="1" /> joined him<n id="2" /> and believed. Among them<n id="3" /> were Dionysius, who was a member of the Areopagus,<n id="4" /> a woman<n id="5" /> named Damaris, and others with them.p>

Then<n id="1" /> a voice said<n id="2" /> to him, &#8220;Get up, Peter; slaughter<n id="3" /> and eat!&#8221;

We found<n id="1" /> a ship crossing over to Phoenicia,<n id="2" /> went aboard,<n id="3" /> and put out to sea.<n id="4" />

He found there a man named Aeneas who had been confined to a mattress for eight years because<n id="1" /> he was paralyzed.

When they had stretched him out for the lash,<n id="1" /> Paul said to the centurion<n id="2" /> standing nearby, &#8220;Is it legal for you to lash a man who is a Roman citizen<n id="3" /> without a proper trial?&#8221;<n id="4" />

At<n id="1" /> that time<n id="2" /> they made an idol in the form of a calf,<n id="3" /> brought<n id="4" /> a sacrifice to the idol, and began rejoicing<n id="5" /> in the works of their hands.<n id="6" />

and from there to Philippi,<n id="1" /> which is a leading city of that district<n id="2" /> of Macedonia,<n id="3" /> a Roman colony.<n id="4" /> We stayed in this city for some days.