AC-18:1  After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came

to

Corinth;

AC-18:2  And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus,

lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that

Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came

unto

them.

AC-18:3  And because he was of the same craft, he abode with

them,

and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.

AC-18:4  And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and

persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.

AC-18:5  And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia,

Paul

was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews [that] Jesus

[was] Christ.

AC-18:6  And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he

shook

[his] raiment, and said unto them, Your blood [be] upon your own

heads; I [am] clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.

AC-18:7  And he departed thence, and entered into a certain

[man's]

house, named Justus, [one] that worshipped God, whose house

joined

hard to the synagogue.

AC-18:8  And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed

on

the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing

believed, and were baptized.

AC-18:9  Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be

not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace:

AC-18:10  For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to

hurt

thee: for I have much people in this city.

AC-18:11  And he continued [there] a year and six months,

teaching

the word of God among them.

AC-18:12  And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made

insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the

judgment seat,

AC-18:13  Saying, This [fellow] persuadeth men to worship God

contrary to the law.

AC-18:14  And when Paul was now about to open [his] mouth, Gallio

said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked

lewdness,

O [ye] Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:

AC-18:15  But if it be a question of words and names, and [of]

your

law, look ye [to it]; for I will be no judge of such [matters].

AC-18:16  And he drave them from the judgment seat.

AC-18:17  Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of

the

synagogue, and beat [him] before the judgment seat. And Gallio

cared

for none of those things.

AC-18:18  And Paul [after this] tarried [there] yet a good while,

and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into

Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn [his]

head in

Cenchrea: for he had a vow.

AC-18:19  And he came to Ephesus, and left them there: but he

himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.

AC-18:20  When they desired [him] to tarry longer time with them,

 he

consented not;

AC-18:21  But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means

keep

this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto

you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.

AC-18:22  And when he had landed at Caesarea, and gone up, and

saluted the church, he went down to Antioch.

AC-18:23  And after he had spent some time [there], he departed,

and

went over [all] the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order,

strengthening all the disciples.

AC-18:24  And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an

eloquent man, [and] mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.

AC-18:25  This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and

being

fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things

of

the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John.

AC-18:26  And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom

when

Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto [them], and

expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.

AC-18:27  And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the

brethren

wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was

come, helped them much which had believed through grace:

AC-18:28  For he mightily convinced the Jews, [and that]

publicly,

showing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.

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