KJV ORIGINAL
The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation.
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✦ MADE SIMPLE
This girl kept following Paul and us around, shouting at everyone: 'These guys work for the highest God, and they're showing us how to be saved!'
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
Even when the message comes from unexpected places, truth is still truth.
📚 Historical Context
In the Book of Acts, Paul and Silas were on their second missionary journey, spreading the Gospel in Europe and arriving in Philippi, a Roman colony in Macedonia. There, they encountered a slave girl possessed by a spirit of divination, who made money for her owners through fortune-telling and began following them while proclaiming their message. This event highlighted the clash between early Christianity and pagan practices in the Roman world.
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