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Setting sail therefore from Troas, we made a straight course to Samothrace, and the day following to Neapolis

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and from thence to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the first of the district, a [Roman] colony: and we were in this city tarrying certain days.

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And on the sabbath day we went forth without the gate by a river side, where we supposed there was a place of prayer and we sat down, and spake unto the women that were come together.

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And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple of the city of Thyatira, one that worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened to give heed unto the things which were spoken by Paul.

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And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide [there]. And she constrained us.