Acts Chapter 18 Back Next{18:1} After these things Paul departed from
Athens, and came to
Corinth.
{18:2} He found a certain
Jew named
Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from
Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because
Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,
{18:3} and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.
{18:4} He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded Jews and
Greeks.
{18:5} But when Silas and Timothy came down from
Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that
Jesus was the
Christ.
{18:6} When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, "Your
blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the
Gentiles!"
{18:7} He departed there, and went into the house of a certain man named
Justus, one who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.
{18:8}
Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were
baptized.
{18:9} The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, "Don't be afraid, but speak and don't be silent;
{18:10} for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city."
{18:11} He lived there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
{18:12} But when
Gallio was proconsul of
Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,
{18:13} saying, "This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the
law."
{18:14} But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked crime, you Jews, it would be reasonable that I should bear with you;
{18:15} but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don't want to be a judge of these matters."
{18:16} He drove them from the judgment seat.
{18:17} Then all the Greeks laid hold on Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. Gallio didn't care about any of these things.
{18:18} Paul, having stayed after this many more days, took his leave of the
brothers, and sailed from there for Syria, together with Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his head in
Cenchreae, for he had a vow.
{18:19} He came to
Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.
{18:20} When they asked him to stay with them a longer time, he declined;
{18:21} but taking his leave of them, and saying, "I must by all means keep this coming
feast in
Jerusalem, but I will return again to you if God wills," he set sail from Ephesus.
{18:22} When he had landed at
Caesarea, he went up and greeted the assembly, and went down to
Antioch.
{18:23} Having spent some time there, he departed, and went through the region of
Galatia, and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the
disciples.
{18:24} Now a certain Jew named
Apollos, an
Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures.
{18:25} This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, although he knew only the
baptism of
John.
{18:26} He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside, and explained to him the way of God more accurately.
{18:27} When he had determined to pass over into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him. When he had come, he greatly helped those who had believed through
grace;
{18:28} for he powerfully refuted the Jews, publicly showing by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.
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