Acts 16 Bible study: What must I do to be saved?

"When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia." (16:6). "When they had come opposite Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit didn’t allow them." (16:7). "Passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas." (16:8). Then "A vision appeared to Paul in the night. There was a man of Macedonia standing, begging him and saying, “Come over into Macedonia and help us.”" (16:9) (tap vision and help). Here is what almost everyone misses: up to this point the chapter tells of "they" (16:6-8) and of what "he had seen" (16:10); then it says, "immediately we sought to go out to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the Good News to them" (16:10). The words "concluding that the Lord had called us" say what they took the vision to mean. The chapter doesn't say who "we" are, and these notes don't guess; Favor's introduction to Acts follows the "we" through the book in Suddenly, "we". These notes also don't say whether "the Lord" in 16:10 means the Father or Jesus.

παρακαλέωparakaleosay par-ak-al-EH-o

Strong's: "to call near, i.e. invite, invoke (by imploration, hortation or consolation)". This chapter has the verb four times (counted in RP2018). The man of Macedonia was "begging him" (16:9); Lydia "begged us" (16:15); the magistrates "came and begged them" (16:39); and Paul and Silas, when they had seen the brothers, "encouraged them" (16:40). Thayer lists 16:9 and 16:15 under "to beg, entreat, beseech", 16:39 under "to strive to appease by entreaty", and 16:40 under "to admonish, exhort". Favor's Acts 11 studies it where Barnabas "exhorted them all" (11:23) and counts it in Acts, and Favor's Mark 5 studies it where the WEB has begged.