Acts 18

After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to ^aCorinth; ²and found a certain Jew named ^bAquila, born in ^cPontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife ^bPriscilla; (because that ^dClaudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them. ³And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and ^ewrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers. ⁴And he ^freasoned ^gin the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks. ⁵And ^hwhen Silas and Timotheus were come from ⁱMacedonia, Paul was ^jpressed in spirit, and ^ktestified to the Jews that ^lJesus was Christ. ⁶And when they opposed themselves, and ^mblasphemed, ⁿhe shook his raiment, and said unto them, ^oYour blood be upon your own heads; ^pI am clean: ^qfrom henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles. ⁷And he departed thence, and entered into a certain man’s house, named Justus, ^rone that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue. ⁸And ^sCrispus, the ^tchief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord ^uwith all his house; and many of ^athe Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized. ⁹Then ^xspake the Lord to Paul in the night by ^ya vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace: ¹⁰for ^zI am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city. ¹¹And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

¹²And when Gallio was the ^adeputy of ^bAchaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and ^cbrought him to ^dthe judgment seat, ¹³saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to ^ethe law. ¹⁴And when Paul was now about to ^fopen his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked ^glewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should ^hbear with you: ¹⁵ⁱbut if it be a question of words and names, and of ^eyour law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters. ¹⁶And he drave them from ^dthe judgment seat. ¹⁷Then all the Greeks took ^kSosthenes, the ^lchief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before ^dthe judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things.

¹⁸And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then ^mtook his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into ⁿSyria, and with him ^oPriscilla and ^oAquila: having ^pshorn his head in ^qCenchrea: for he had ^pa vow. ¹⁹And he came to ^rEphesus, and left them there: but he himself entered ^sinto the synagogue, and ^treasoned with the Jews. ²⁰When they desired him to tarry longer time with them, he consented not; ²¹but ^mbade them farewell, saying, ^uI must by all means ^xkeep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, ^yif God will. And he sailed from ^rEphesus. ²²And when he had landed at ^zCesarea, and ^agone up, and saluted the church, he went down to ^bAntioch. ²³And after he had spent some time there, he departed, and went over all the country of ^cGalatia and ^dPhrygia ^ein order, ^fstrengthening all the ^gdisciples.

²⁴And a certain Jew named ^hApollos, born at ⁱAlexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to ^jEphesus. ²⁵This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being ^kfervent in the spirit, he spake and taught ^ldiligently the things of the Lord, knowing only ^mthe baptism of John. ²⁶And he began to ⁿspeak boldly in the synagogue: whom when ^oAquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and ^pexpounded unto him ^qthe way of God more ^lperfectly. ²⁷And when he was disposed to pass into ^rAchaia, the brethren wrote, ^sexhorting the disciples to ^treceive him: who, when he was come, ^uhelped them much which had believed through grace: ²⁸for he ^wmightily convinced ^xthe Jews, and that publickly, shewing by the ^yscriptures that ^zJesus was Christ.

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