015:037 Barnabas planned to take John, who was called Mark, with them also. 015:038 But Paul didn't think that it was a good idea to take with them someone who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia, and didn't go with them to do the work. 015:039 Then the contention grew so sharp that they separated from each other. Barnabas took Mark with him, and sailed away to Cyprus, 015:040 but Paul chose Silas, and went out, being commended by the brothers to the grace of God. 015:041 He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the assemblies. 016:001 He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek. 016:002 The brothers who were at Lystra and Iconium gave a good testimony about him. 016:003 Paul wanted to have him go out with him, and he took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts; for they all knew that his father was a Greek. 016:004 As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered the decrees to them to keep which had been ordained by the apostles and elders who were at Jerusalem. 016:005 So the assemblies were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily. 016:006 When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. 016:007 When they had come opposite Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit didn't allow them. 016:008 Passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas. 016:009 A vision appeared to Paul in the night. There was a man of Macedonia standing, begging him, and saying, "Come over into Macedonia and help us." 016:010 When he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go out to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the Good News to them. 016:011 Setting sail therefore from Troas, we made a straight course to Samothrace, and the day following to Neapolis; 016:012 and from there to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the foremost of the district, a Roman colony. We were staying some days in this city. 016:013 On the Sabbath day we went forth outside of the city by a riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down, and spoke to the women who had come together. 016:014 A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul. 016:015 When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay." So she persuaded us. 016:016 It happened, as we were going to prayer, that a certain girl