Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling.

1. As WE went to prayer - This is the first of the "WE" passages. When Luke, the author is along with Paul, he includes himself with them. When he remains behind, "they" go on to another city.

2. Shortly after the conversion of Lydia, the group of Christians were meeting to pray.

3. A slave girl passed by. She was possessed with a spirit of divination.

1. This was the claimed power to - either communicate with the dead, or fortell the future.

2. Her owners were using her as a way to make money.

3. Luke does not say she could foretell the future, but the people thought she could.

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