First Reading: Acts 16:1-10

¹ And he came also to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer; but his father was a Greek.
² He was well spoken of by the brethren at Lystra and Ico’nium.
³ Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him; and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews that were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.
⁴ As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered to them for observance the decisions which had been reached by the apostles and elders who were at Jerusalem.
⁵ So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and they increased in numbers daily.
⁶ And they went through the region of Phry’gia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.
⁷ And when they had come opposite My’sia, they attempted to go into Bithyn’ia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them;
⁸ so, passing by My’sia, they went down to Tro’as.
⁹ And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: a man of Macedo’nia was standing beseeching him and saying, “Come over to Macedo’nia and help us.”
¹⁰ And when he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go on into Macedo’nia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.