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ACTS CHAPTER 16
Act_16:1-8 Paul having circumcised Timothy, and taken him for
his companion, passeth through divers countries,
Act_16:9-13 and is directed by a vision to go into Macedonia.
Act_16:14,15 He converteth Lydia,
Act_16:16-18 and casteth out a spirit of divination.
Act_16:19-24 He and Silas are whipped and imprisoned.
Act_16:25-34 The prison doors are thrown open by an earthquake at
midnight: the jailer, prevented by Paul from killing
himself, is converted.
Act_16:35-40 They are released by the magistrates.
Derbe and Lystra; of these cities see Act_14:6.
Timotheus; who was known unto Paul from his childhood, 2Ti_1:5, and accompanied him in many journeys, 2Ti_3:10,11, and is called by him, his work-fellow, Rom_16:21.
A certain woman, called Eunice; being one of them that had believed in Christ in Judea, and had a holy woman to her mother, named Lois.
His father was a Greek: although it was not lawful for a Jew to marry a woman of another nation, yet some think that a Jewess might marry to a stranger, as Esther married to Ahasuerus.
A Greek; of Gentile extraction, and therefore not circumcised; yet he is accounted to have been a proselyte.