Acts 16:13

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

On the Sabbath day we went outside the city gate to the side of the river, where we thought there would be a place of prayer, and we sat down and began to speak to the women who had assembled there.

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  • Acts 13:14 : 14 Moving on from Perga, they arrived at Pisidian Antioch, and on the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down.
  • Acts 13:42 : 42 As Paul and Barnabas were going out, the people were urging them to speak about these things on the next Sabbath.
  • Acts 16:6 : 6 Paul’s Vision of the Macedonian Man They went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been prevented by the Holy Spirit from speaking the message in the province of Asia.
  • Acts 17:2 : 2 Paul went to the Jews in the synagogue, as he customarily did, and on three Sabbath days he addressed them from the scriptures,
  • Acts 18:4 : 4 He addressed both Jews and Greeks in the synagogue every Sabbath, attempting to persuade them.
  • Acts 20:7 : 7 On the first day of the week, when we met to break bread, Paul began to speak to the people, and because he intended to leave the next day, he extended his message until midnight.
  • Acts 21:5 : 5 When our time was over, we left and went on our way. All of them, with their wives and children, accompanied us outside of the city. After kneeling down on the beach and praying,
  • Gal 3:28 : 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female– for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.
  • Col 1:23 : 23 if indeed you remain in the faith, established and firm, without shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has also been preached in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become its servant.
  • Matt 5:1-2 : 1 The Beatitudes When he saw the crowds, he went up the mountain. After he sat down his disciples came to him. 2 Then he began to teach them by saying:
  • Matt 13:2 : 2 And such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat to sit while the whole crowd stood on the shore.
  • Mark 16:15 : 15 He said to them,“Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
  • Luke 4:20-21 : 20 Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him. 21 Then he began to tell them,“Today this scripture has been fulfilled even as you heard it being read.”
  • Luke 13:10 : 10 Healing on the Sabbath Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath,
  • John 8:2 : 2 Early in the morning he came to the temple courts again. All the people came to him, and he sat down and began to teach them.

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  • Acts 16:8-12
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    8 so they passed through Mysia and went down to Troas.

    9 A vision appeared to Paul during the night: A Macedonian man was standing there urging him,“Come over to Macedonia and help us!”

    10 After Paul saw the vision, we attempted immediately to go over to Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to proclaim the good news to them.

    11 Arrival at Philippi We put out to sea from Troas and sailed a straight course to Samothrace, the next day to Neapolis,

    12 and from there to Philippi, which is a leading city of that district of Macedonia, a Roman colony. We stayed in this city for some days.

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    14 A woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, a God-fearing woman, listened to us. The Lord opened her heart to respond to what Paul was saying.

    15 After she and her household were baptized, she urged us,“If you consider me to be a believer in the Lord, come and stay in my house.” And she persuaded us.

    16 Paul and Silas Are Thrown Into Prison Now 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. She brought her owners a great profit by fortune-telling.

    17 She followed behind Paul and us and kept crying out,“These men are servants of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation.”

  • Acts 21:2-8
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    2 We found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, went aboard, and put out to sea.

    3 After we sighted Cyprus and left it behind on our port side, we sailed on to Syria and put in at Tyre, because the ship was to unload its cargo there.

    4 After we located the disciples, we stayed there seven days. They repeatedly told Paul through the Spirit not to set foot in Jerusalem.

    5 When our time was over, we left and went on our way. All of them, with their wives and children, accompanied us outside of the city. After kneeling down on the beach and praying,

    6 we said farewell to one another. Then we went aboard the ship, and they returned to their own homes.

    7 We continued the voyage from Tyre and arrived at Ptolemais, and when we had greeted the brothers, we stayed with them for one day.

    8 On the next day we left and came to Caesarea, and entered the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.

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    39 and came and apologized to them. After they brought them out, they asked them repeatedly to leave the city.

    40 When they came out of the prison, they entered Lydia’s house, and when they saw the brothers, they encouraged them and then departed.

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    14 Moving on from Perga, they arrived at Pisidian Antioch, and on the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down.

    15 After the reading from the law and the prophets, the leaders of the synagogue sent them a message, saying,“Brothers, if you have any message of exhortation for the people, speak it.”

  • Acts 20:5-7
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    5 These had gone on ahead and were waiting for us in Troas.

    6 We sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and within five days we came to the others in Troas, where we stayed for seven days.

    7 On the first day of the week, when we met to break bread, Paul began to speak to the people, and because he intended to leave the next day, he extended his message until midnight.

  • Acts 17:1-2
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    1 Paul and Silas at Thessalonica After they traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.

    2 Paul went to the Jews in the synagogue, as he customarily did, and on three Sabbath days he addressed them from the scriptures,

  • 44 On the next Sabbath almost the whole city assembled together to hear the word of the Lord.

  • 4 Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large group of God-fearing Greeks and quite a few prominent women.

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    14 There we found some brothers and were invited to stay with them seven days. And in this way we came to Rome.

    15 The brothers from there, when they heard about us, came as far as the Forum of Appius and Three Taverns to meet us. When he saw them, Paul thanked God and took courage.

  • 4 He addressed both Jews and Greeks in the synagogue every Sabbath, attempting to persuade them.

  • 2 We went on board a ship from Adramyttium that was about to sail to various ports along the coast of the province of Asia and put out to sea, accompanied by Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica.

  • 19 But when her owners saw their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the authorities.

  • 17 So he was addressing the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles in the synagogue, and in the marketplace every day those who happened to be there.

  • 35 At daybreak the magistrates sent their police officers, saying,“Release those men.”

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    14 When he met us in Assos, we took him aboard and went to Mitylene.

    15 We set sail from there, and on the following day we arrived off Chios. The next day we approached Samos, and the day after that we arrived at Miletus.

  • 7 Then Paul left the synagogue and went to the house of a person named Titius Justus, a Gentile who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.

  • 7 There they continued to proclaim the good news.

  • 42 As Paul and Barnabas were going out, the people were urging them to speak about these things on the next Sabbath.

  • 10 Paul and Silas at Berea The brothers sent Paul and Silas off to Berea at once, during the night. When they arrived, they went to the Jewish synagogue.

  • 14 Then the brothers sent Paul away to the coast at once, but Silas and Timothy remained in Berea.

  • 25 About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the rest of the prisoners were listening to them.

  • 15 After these days we got ready and started up to Jerusalem.

  • 16 and through your help to go on into Macedonia and then from Macedonia to come back to you and be helped on our way into Judea by you.

  • 5 After we had sailed across the open sea off Cilicia and Pamphylia, we put in at Myra in Lycia.

  • 19 When they reached Ephesus, Paul left Priscilla and Aquila behind there, but he himself went into the synagogue and addressed the Jews.

  • 26 He began to speak out fearlessly in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained the way of God to him more accurately.

  • 36 Paul and Barnabas Part Company After some days Paul said to Barnabas,“Let’s return and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord to see how they are doing.”

  • 27 When they arrived and gathered the church together, they reported all the things God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith for the Gentiles.

  • 30 Then he brought them outside and asked,“Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”