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Acts 16:13 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 13. 13And 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.
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Role in This Section
Moves outside the city on Sabbath to a riverside prayer place among women.
Read It With
- Acts 16:11–16:15
Acts 16:13 moves outside the city on Sabbath to a riverside prayer place among women; within Acts 16:11–16:15, the controlling movement is that The team reaches Philippi, goes to a riverside prayer place, speaks with women, and the Lord opens Lydia's heart; she and her household are baptized, and she presses the missionaries to accept her hospitality.
Why It Needs Context
Moves outside the city on Sabbath to a riverside prayer place among women. Its responsible force depends on the full sequence, speaker, narrator framing, and outcome of Acts 16:11–16:15; it is connective evidence rather than a complete standalone teaching.
Continue in Context
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Read Acts 16:11–16:15 — Lydia's household opens in PhilippiSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and unit coverage.
Exact location: Acts 16:11–16:15, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and punctuation control, without pretending one edition is a complete apparatus.
Exact location: SBLGNT official text, Acts 16:11-16:15
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