It is likely that Lydia learned her trade there, though no mention is made of how or why she ended up in Philippi. Lydia was originally from Thyatira, a bustling merchant city of guilds. It is here that it’s mentioned that she was a seller of purple cloth.
Paul found her in Philippi with other women worshiping along the riverbank. It is all the more remarkable that Lydia worshipped God in that Hellenistic Roman city. Proselyte was the name given by the Jews to foreigners who adopted the Jewish religion, but Philippi had a negligible number of Jews in the city, too few even to attain a quorum for a synagogue. She was a worshiper of God, which meant that she was seeking a deeper spiritual life than the pagans around her, though not yet a proselyte. Lydia is mentioned only a few times in the New Testament, in Acts 16:11-15, and v. Let’s look at the woman of Thyatira, Lydia, a seller of purple. What was a day in the life like for a person who lived in New Testament Bible times? It depended on what trade the person made their living.
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