The Conversion of Lydia (Acts 16:11-15)

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• A Summary of the Events
• What Lydia Did to Become a Christian

Acts 16:11-15

11 Therefore loosing from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothracia, and the next [day] to Neapolis; 12 And from thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, [and] a colony: and we were in that city abiding certain days.

13 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]. 14 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. 15 And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought [us], saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide [there]. And she constrained us.

A Brief Summary of the Passage.

As in the other examples of Conversion we see that Lydia and her household were baptized. We know from other passages, such as the Ethiopian Eunuch and the conversion of Cornelius that this was a water baptism and from Pauls account (Acts 22) that it was for washing their sins away.