How do the route, Philippian encounters and release dispute unfold?

At Derbe and Lystra Paul finds Timothy, a disciple whose mother is a believing Jew and father a Gentile, well spoken of by the brethren of Lystra and Iconium. Wishing to take him, Paul circumcises him because the local Jews know his father is a Gentile. In the cities they deliver the Jerusalem apostles’ and ancients’ decrees, and the churches are confirmed and grow daily. After Phrygia and Galatia, the Holy Ghost forbids preaching in Asia. At Mysia the Spirit of Jesus does not permit their attempted entry to Bithynia. They pass Mysia to Troas, where Paul sees a Macedonian man at night asking them to pass over and help. The narration changes to we as they immediately seek passage, assured that God called them to preach there.

They sail straight to Samothracia, reach Neapolis the next day and then Philippi, a chief city of part of Macedonia and a colony. After some days of conferring, on the sabbath they go outside the gate to a river where prayer seems to be held, sit and speak to the assembled women. Lydia, a purple seller from Thyatira who worships God, hears them. The Lord opens her heart to attend to Paul’s words. Baptized with her household, she urges them to lodge with her if they judge her faithful, and constrains them.

On their way to prayer a girl with a pythonical spirit brings her masters much gain through divination. The annotation describes a spirit pretending to divine and tell fortunes. She follows for many days, proclaiming their service of the Most High and the way of salvation. Grieved, Paul commands the spirit to depart in Jesus’s name; it leaves that hour. Seeing their hope of gain gone, the masters seize Paul and Silas and bring them before the marketplace rulers, accusing them as Jews troubling the city and teaching customs unlawful for Romans. The people join against them; magistrates tear their clothes and order rods. After many stripes they are imprisoned under diligent custody, and the jailer places them in the inner prison with their feet in stocks.

At midnight they pray and praise God as the prisoners listen. A great earthquake shakes the foundations, opens all doors and loosens all bonds. The awakened keeper sees the doors open and draws his sword, intending to kill himself because he supposes the prisoners have fled. Paul calls loudly that he should do himself no harm, for all remain. The keeper asks for a light, enters trembling and falls at their feet. Bringing them out, he asks how to be saved. They answer that belief in the Lord Jesus brings salvation to him and his house, and preach to everyone there. That hour he washes their stripes; he and his household are baptized immediately. He takes them home, sets a table and rejoices with his household in believing God.

By day the magistrates send serjeants to release the men, and the keeper relays permission to depart in peace. Paul objects that Romans were publicly beaten without condemnation, imprisoned and now privately thrust out: the magistrates must come and release them themselves. After the officers report this, the magistrates fear because the men are Romans. They come, beseech them, bring them out and ask them to depart the city. Paul and Silas visit Lydia’s house, comfort the brethren and leave.