From there we went inland to Philippi, a city of the first district of Macedonia; it is also a Roman colony. We spent several days there.

From Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus--- To all God's people in Philippi who are in union with Christ Jesus, including the church leaders and helpers:

You know how we had already been mistreated and insulted in Philippi before we came to you in Thessalonica. And even though there was much opposition, our God gave us courage to tell you the Good News that comes from him.

When he saw that this pleased the Jews, he went ahead and had Peter arrested. (This happened during the time of the Festival of Unleavened Bread.)

You must celebrate this day as a religious festival to remind you of what I, the LORD, have done. Celebrate it for all time to come."

The LORD said, "For seven days you must not eat any bread made with yeast---eat only unleavened bread. On the first day you are to get rid of all the yeast in your houses, for if anyone during those seven days eats bread made with yeast, he shall no longer be considered one of my people.

From the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month to the evening of the twenty-first day, you must not eat any bread made with yeast.

(SEE 12:19)

For seven days you must eat unleavened bread and on the seventh day there is to be a festival to honor the LORD.

For seven days you must not eat any bread made with yeast; there must be no yeast or leavened bread anywhere in your land.

In the month of Abib, the month in which you left Egypt, celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread in the way that I commanded you. Do not eat any bread made with yeast during the seven days of this festival. Never come to worship me without bringing an offering.

"Keep the Festival of Unleavened Bread. As I have commanded you, eat unleavened bread for seven days in the month of Abib, because it was in that month that you left Egypt.

You must remove the old yeast of sin so that you will be entirely pure. Then you will be like a new batch of dough without any yeast, as indeed I know you actually are. For our Passover Festival is ready, now that Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

Let us celebrate our Passover, then, not with bread having the old yeast of sin and wickedness, but with the bread that has no yeast, the bread of purity and truth.

When you come, bring my coat that I left in Troas with Carpus; bring the books too, and especially the ones made of parchment.

There we found some believers and stayed with them a week. By the power of the Spirit they told Paul not to go to Jerusalem.

On the following day we left and arrived in Caesarea. There we stayed at the house of Philip the evangelist, one of the seven men who had been chosen as helpers in Jerusalem.

We found some believers there who asked us to stay with them a week. And so we came to Rome.