Acts Chapter 18
1 After these things Paul left⁺ Athens and went to Corinth.
2 There, he found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus and recently⁺ come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to them
3 because he was of the same craft. He stayed⁺ and worked⁺ with them for in their occupation they were tent makers.
4 Every Sabbath, Paul reasoned in the synagogue, persuading the Jews and the Greeks.
5 When Silas and Timothy came from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit to testify to the Jews that Jesus was indeed the Christ.
6 When they opposed this and blasphemed, Paul shook his clothing⁺ and said to them: Your blood be upon your own heads. I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles.
7 So he departed from there⁺ and entered a certain man's house, one named Justus who worshiped God and whose house adjoined⁺ the synagogue.
8 Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue along with all his household also believed on the Lord. And many other Corinthians who heard also believed and were baptized.
9 Then the Lord spoke to Paul by a vision at night, saying: Do not be afraid, but speak out. Do not keep silent⁺.
10 For I am with you and no one shall set upon you to hurt you, for I have many people in this city.
11 Paul continued there for a year and six months, teaching the Word of God among them.
12 Then when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews, with one accord, made insurrection against Paul and brought him to the judgment seat.
13 They said: This man persuades people⁺ to worship God contrary to the law.
14 When Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews: If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O Jews, it would be reasonable that I bear with you.
15 However, if it is merely a question of words and names and of your law, then you look after it. For I will not judge such matters.
16 And he drove them away from the judgment seat.
17 Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. But Gallio did not care about these things.
18 After this, Paul stayed there for many days⁺ but then he left the family⁺ and sailed to Syria with Priscilla and Aquila with him. Paul shaved⁺ his head in Cenchrea, for he had made a vow.
19 He then went to Ephesus and left Priscilla and Aquila there while he himself entered the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.
20 When they asked⁺ him to stay⁺ a longer time with them, he did not consent,
21 but bid them farewell saying: I must by all means keep this feast that comes in Jerusalem. But I will return to you again, if it is God's will. Then he sailed from Ephesus.
22 After he landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted⁺ the assembly⁺, and then he went down to Antioch.
23 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.
24 Then a certain Jew named Apollos who was born at Alexandria and who was an eloquent man and mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus.
25 Apollos was well instructed in the way of the Lord. He was fervent in the spirit and he spoke and taught diligently the things of the Lord. But he only knew the baptism of John.
26 As he began to speak boldly in the synagogue, when Aquila and Priscilla heard him, they took him aside and expounded the way of God to him more perfectly.
27 After that when Apollos was disposed to pass into Achaia, the family⁺ wrote a letter, exhorting the disciples to receive him. When he came, he helped those who had believed through grace.
28 For he mightily refuted⁺ the Jews, and that publicly, showing by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.