⁸ Then Haman informed King Ahasuerus, “There is one ethnic group, scattered throughout the peoples in every province of your kingdom,^(A) yet living in isolation. Their laws are different from everyone else’s and they do not obey the king’s laws.^(B) It is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate them.^(C)

¹² and from there to Philippi,^(A) a Roman colony, which is a leading city of that district of Macedonia. We stayed in that city for a number of days.