Acts 16:1-12

1Paul went on to Derbe and Lystra, where there was a disciple named Timothy, the son of a believing Jewish woman, but his father was a Greek.

2The brothers and sisters at Lystra and Iconium spoke highly of him.

3Paul wanted Timothy to go with him; so he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, since they all knew that his father was a Greek.

4As they traveled through the towns, they delivered the decisions reached by the apostles and elders at Jerusalem for the people to observe.

5So the churches were strengthened in the faith and grew daily in numbers.

6They went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia; they had been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.

7When they came to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them.

8Passing by Mysia they went down to Troas.

9During the night Paul had a vision in which a Macedonian man was standing and pleading with him, “Cross over to Macedonia and help us!”

10After he had seen the vision, we immediately made efforts to set out for Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.

11From Troas we put out to sea and sailed straight for Samothrace, the next day to Neapolis,

12and from there to Philippi, a Roman colony and a leading city of the district of Macedonia. We stayed in that city for several days.