And constrained him, saying: Abide with us for it draweth towards night, and the day is far passed. And he went in to tarry with them.
And the Lord said to the servant: Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
And they drew nye unto the town which they went to. And he made, as though he would have gone further.
¶ And it came to pass as he sat at meat with them, he took bread and blessed it, and brake it and gave it unto them.
And a certain woman named Lidia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira which worshipped God, gave us audience, whose heart God opened that she attended unto those things which Paul spake.