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Acts 18:1 (show verse)

After this, he left Athens and went to Corinth,

Acts 18:2 (show verse)

where he found a Jewish man named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul came to them,

Acts 18:3 (show verse)

and being of the same occupation, stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade.

Acts 18:4 (show verse)

He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and tried to persuade both Jews and Greeks.

Acts 18:5 (show verse)

When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with preaching the message and solemnly testified to the Jews that Jesus is the Messiah.

Acts 18:6 (show verse)

But when they resisted and blasphemed, he shook his robe and told them, “Your blood is on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”

Acts 18:7 (show verse)

So he left there and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.

Acts 18:8 (show verse)

Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, believed the Lord, along with his whole household. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.

Acts 18:9 (show verse)

Then the Lord said to Paul in a night vision, “Don’t be afraid, but keep on speaking and don’t be silent.

Acts 18:10 (show verse)

For I am with you, and no one will lay a hand on you to hurt you, because I have many people in this city.”

Acts 18:11 (show verse)

And he stayed there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

Acts 18:12 (show verse)

While Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a united attack against Paul and brought him to the judge’s bench.

Acts 18:13 (show verse)

“This man,” they said, “persuades people to worship God contrary to the law!”

Acts 18:14 (show verse)

As Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of a crime or of moral evil, it would be reasonable for me to put up with you Jews.

Acts 18:15 (show verse)

But if these are questions about words, names, and your own law, see to it yourselves. I don’t want to be a judge of such things.”

Acts 18:16 (show verse)

So he drove them from the judge’s bench.

Acts 18:17 (show verse)

Then they all seized Sosthenes, the leader of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the judge’s bench. But none of these things concerned Gallio.

Acts 18:18 (show verse)

So Paul, having stayed on for many days, said good-bye to the brothers and sailed away to Syria. Priscilla and Aquila were with him. He shaved his head at Cenchreae because he had taken a vow.

Acts 18:19 (show verse)

When they reached Ephesus he left them there, but he himself entered the synagogue and engaged in discussion with the Jews.

Acts 18:20 (show verse)

And though they asked him to stay for a longer time, he declined,

Acts 18:21 (show verse)

but he said good-bye and stated, “I’ll come back to you again, if God wills.” Then he set sail from Ephesus.

Acts 18:22 (show verse)

On landing at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the church and went down to Antioch.

Acts 18:23 (show verse)

And after spending some time there, he set out, traveling through one place after another in the Galatian territory and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.

Acts 18:24 (show verse)

A Jew named Apollos, a native Alexandrian, an eloquent man who was powerful in the use of the Scriptures, arrived in Ephesus.

Acts 18:25 (show verse)

This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught the things about Jesus accurately, although he knew only John’s baptism.

Acts 18:26 (show verse)

He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. After Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him home and explained the way of God to him more accurately.

Acts 18:27 (show verse)

When he wanted to cross over to Achaia, the brothers wrote to the disciples urging them to welcome him. After he arrived, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace.

Acts 18:28 (show verse)

For he vigorously refuted the Jews in public, demonstrating through the Scriptures that Jesus is the Messiah.