Acts 18:1–11

FOUNDING THE CORINTHIAN CHURCH

18 After this, heA 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, 3 and 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

5 When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself to preaching the wordB and testified to the Jews that Jesus is the Messiah.u 6 When they resisted and blasphemed,v he shook out his clothesw 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. 8 Crispus, 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.

9 The Lord said to Paul in a night vision, “Don’t be afraid, but keep on speaking and don’t be silent. 10 For 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.