Acts 18:1–11

FOUNDING THE CORINTHIAN CHURCH

18After this, he^A left Athens and went to Corinth,^{q 2}where he found a Jew named Aquila,^r 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, ³and since they were of the same occupation, tentmakers by trade, he stayed with them and worked.^{s 4}He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and tried to persuade both Jews and Greeks.^t

⁵When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself to preaching the word^B and testified to the Jews that Jesus is the Messiah.^{u 6}When they resisted and blasphemed,^v he shook out his clothes^w and told them, “Your blood is on your own heads!^x I am innocent.^C From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”^{y 7}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. ⁸Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, along with his whole household.^z Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.

⁹The Lord said to Paul in a night vision, “Don’t be afraid, but keep on speaking and don’t be silent. ¹⁰For I am with you, and no one will lay a hand on you to hurt you, because I have many people in this city.”^{aa 11}He stayed there a year and a half, teaching the word of God among them.