C.R.P. Day 327 - Acts 15-16

Certain men came down from Judea and taught the brethren unless you were circumcised according to the custom of Moses you cannot be saved; The apostles and the elders came together to consider this matter; The apostles and elders, with the whole church, send chosen man of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas namely Judas who was also named Barsabas and Silas leading men among them telling them to not have laid upon them any greater burden than these necessary things that they abstain from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourself from these you will do well; Paul and Barnabas go back to every city that they preach the gospel in; Barnabas and Mark sale to Cyprus while Paul chose Silas and departed and went back to the cities he previously preached in; Paul and Cyrus come to Derbe and Lystra and there met a disciple named Timothy who has a Jewish mother and a Greek father; they were for bidden by the Holy Spirit to preach in Asia and they were for bidden to also preach in Bithynia; they sailed from Troas and ran a straight curse to Samothrace and the next day came to Neapolis and from there to Philippi which is the foremost city of the part of Macedonia a colony and they were there for some days; they meet Lydia, the seller of purple, from the city of Thyatira who worshiped God; A certain slave girl possessed with the spirit of divination met them who brought her masters much profit by fortunetelling; Paul greatly annoyed, casts out the spirit in Jesus name; her masters saw that the hope of profit was gone and sees Paul and Silas and drag them into the marketplace to the authorities; Paul and Silas were thrown into prison, but it midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God and the prisoners were listening to them; A great earthquake shook the foundations of the prison and immediately all the doors were open and everyone’s chains were loosed; and when it was day the magistrates sent the officer saying “let those men go“;