Acts 18

After these things he departed from Athens, and came to Corinth.

And he found a certain Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, having recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. And he came to them,

and because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them, and they were working together because they were tentmakers by trade.

And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, trying to persuade both Jews and Greeks.

But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was wholly occupied with the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

And when they opposed and spoke defaming words, he shook out his clothes and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads. I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”

And he departed from there, and went into the house of a certain man named Titius Justus, a God-fearing Greek, whose house was next to the synagogue.

And Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord together with his entire household. And many of the Corinthians, hearing, believed and were baptized.

And the Lord said to Paul by a vision at night, “Do not be afraid, but speak and do not be silent,

for I am with you and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city.”

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

While Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews rose up with one accord against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,

saying, “This man is persuading the people to worship God contrary to the law.”

But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If indeed it were a matter of injury or evil crime, O you Jews, reason would dictate that I should put up with you,

but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. I do not intend to be a judge of these matters.”

And he drove them from the judgment seat.

And they all took hold of Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. Yet none of these things were a concern for Gallio.

Now Paul, having still remained a considerable number of days after that, said goodbye to the brothers, and sailed from there to Syria, and Priscilla and Aquila were with him. In Cenchreae he shaved his head, for he had taken a vow.

And they arrived at Ephesus; and as for Aquilla and Priscilla, he left them there. Now he himself went into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.

And when they asked him to stay a longer time, he did not consent,

but having said goodbye to them and having said, “I will return again to you if God wills,” he set sail from Ephesus.

And when he had landed at Caesarea, he went up to Jerusalem and greeted the church, and went down to Antioch.

And having spent some time in Antioch, he departed, and went from one place to the next through the Galatian region and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.

Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus, and he was mighty in the scriptures.

He had been instructed in the way of the Lord, and being intensely eager in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, knowing only the baptism of John.

And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and expounded to him the way of God more accurately.

And when he intended to go across into Achaia, the brothers and sisters encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. And when he arrived, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace,

for he powerfully refuted the Jews, and that publicly, showing through the scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.