Acts 16
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Acts 15:22-24 in Latin (left column) and Greek (right column) in Codex Laudianus, written about AD 550.
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| Book | Acts of the Apostles |
| Bible part | New Testament |
| Order in the Bible part | 5 |
| Category | Church history |
Acts 16 is the sixteenth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the second missionary journey of Paul, together with Silas and Timothy. The book containing this chapter is anonymous but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke composed this book as well as the Gospel of Luke.
The original text is written in Koine Greek and is divided into 40 verses. Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter are:
This chapter mentions the following places (in order of appearance):
The second missionary journey of Paul took place in c. AD 49.
This chapter can be grouped:
Verses 9-10 record a vision in which the Paul is said to have seen a 'man of Macedonia' pleading with him, saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us”. The passage reports that Paul and his companions responded immediately to the invitation. The passage is considered to echo Joshua 10:6 in which the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua saying " ... come up to us quickly, save us and help us". The first seal of Massachusetts Bay Colony had an American Indian with a scroll coming out over his mouth with the words "Come over and help us", also said to echo the words of the man of Macedonia.
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