ACTS 16:13 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither.”
On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there — the absence of a synagogue in Philippi (itself remarkable for a significant Jewish settlement) meant the Jewish community gathered at the riverside (rivers provided water for ritual purification). Luke's notation that women gathered suggests their prominence in this particular prayer group, possibly indicating male Jewish leadership's absence.
Church Fathers on Acts 16:13
And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont (Chrys. was thought likely) to be made; and we sat down, and spoke unto the women which resorted there. And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul. See again Paul judaizing. Where it was thought, it says, both from the time and from the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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