When Paul and his companions move beyond “the region of Phrygia and Galatia” (16:6), an area that may refer to the places Paul visited in his first journey (Acts 13:15–14:20), they are prohibited by the Holy Spirit from preaching the word in both the province of Asia to the west and the province of Bithynia to the north (16:6–10). They then travel to Troas, where Paul has a vision in which a man of Macedonia begs them to come to Macedonia (16:9). In this account, which introduces a new direction of t…