Acts 18
1 After these things he left aAthens and went to bCorinth.
2 And he found a Jew named aAquila, a native of bPontus, having recently come from cItaly with his wife aPriscilla, because dClaudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. He came to them,
3 and because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them and athey were working, for by trade they were tent-makers.
4 And he was reasoning ain the synagogue every bSabbath and trying to persuade cJews and Greeks.
5 But when aSilas and Timothy bcame down from cMacedonia, Paul began devoting himself completely to the word, solemnly dtestifying to the Jews that eJesus was the 1Christ.
6 But when they resisted and blasphemed, he ashook out his garments and said to them, “Your bblood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on I will go cto the Gentiles.”
7 Then he left there and went to the house of a man named 1Titius Justus, aa worshiper of God, whose house was next to the synagogue.
8 aCrispus, bthe leader of the synagogue, believed in the Lord cwith all his household, and many of the dCorinthians when they heard were believing and being baptized.
9 And the Lord said to Paul in the night by aa vision, “Do not be afraid any longer, but go on speaking and do not be silent;
10 for I am with you, and no man will attack you in order to harm you, for I have many people in this city.”
11 And he settled there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
12 But while Gallio was aproconsul of bAchaia, cthe Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before dthe judgment seat,
13 saying, “This man persuades men to worship God contrary to athe law.”
14 But when Paul was about to aopen his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of wrong or of vicious crime, O Jews, it would be reasonable for me to put up with you;
15 but if there are aquestions about words and names and your own law, look after it yourselves; I am unwilling to be a judge of these matters.”
16 And he drove them away from athe judgment seat.
17 And they all took hold of aSosthenes, bthe leader of the synagogue, and began beating him in front of cthe judgment seat. But Gallio was not concerned about any of these things.
18 Paul, having remained many days longer, atook leave of bthe brethren and put out to sea for cSyria, and with him were dPriscilla and dAquila. In eCenchrea 1he fhad his hair cut, for he was keeping a vow.
19 They came to aEphesus, and he left them there. Now he himself entered bthe synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.
20 When they asked him to stay for a longer time, he did not consent,
21 but ataking leave of them and saying, “I will return to you again bif God wills,” he set sail from cEphesus.
22 When he had landed at aCaesarea, he went up and greeted the church, and went down to bAntioch.
23 And having spent some time there, he left and passed successively through the aGalatian region and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.
24 Now a Jew named aApollos, an bAlexandrian by birth, 1an eloquent man, came to cEphesus; and he was mighty in the Scriptures.
25 This man had been instructed in athe way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he was speaking and teaching accurately the things concerning Jesus, being acquainted only with bthe baptism of John;
26 and 1he began to speak …
Acts 18–19
1 After these things he left aAthens and went to bCorinth.
2 And he found a Jew named aAquila, a native of bPontus, having recently come from cItaly with his wife aPriscilla, because dClaudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. He came to them,
3 and because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them and athey were working, for by trade they were tent-makers.
4 And he was reasoning ain the synagogue every bSabbath and trying to persuade cJews and Greeks.
5 But when aSilas and Timothy bcame down from cMacedonia, Paul began devoting himself completely to the word, solemnly dtestifying to the Jews that eJesus was the 1Christ.
6 But when they resisted and blasphemed, he ashook out his garments and said to them, “Your bblood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on I will go cto the Gentiles.”
7 Then he left there and went to the house of a man named 1Titius Justus, aa worshiper of God, whose house was next to the synagogue.
8 aCrispus, bthe leader of the synagogue, believed in the Lord cwith all his household, and many of the dCorinthians when they heard were believing and being baptized.
9 And the Lord said to Paul in the night by aa vision, “Do not be afraid any longer, but go on speaking and do not be silent;
10 for I am with you, and no man will attack you in order to harm you, for I have many people in this city.”
11 And he settled there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
12 But while Gallio was aproconsul of bAchaia, cthe Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before dthe judgment seat,
13 saying, “This man persuades men to worship God contrary to athe law.”
14 But when Paul was about to aopen his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of wrong or of vicious crime, O Jews, it would be reasonable for me to put up with you;
15 but if there are aquestions about words and names and your own law, look after it yourselves; I am unwilling to be a judge of these matters.”
16 And he drove them away from athe judgment seat.
17 And they all took hold of aSosthenes, bthe leader of the synagogue, and began beating him in front of cthe judgment seat. But Gallio was not concerned about any of these things.
18 Paul, having remained many days longer, atook leave of bthe brethren and put out to sea for cSyria, and with him were dPriscilla and dAquila. In eCenchrea 1he fhad his hair cut, for he was keeping a vow.
19 They came to aEphesus, and he left them there. Now he himself entered bthe synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.
20 When they asked him to stay for a longer time, he did not consent,
21 but ataking leave of them and saying, “I will return to you again bif God wills,” he set sail from cEphesus.
22 When he had landed at aCaesarea, he went up and greeted the church, and went down to bAntioch.
23 And having spent some time there, he left and passed successively through the aGalatian region and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.
24 Now a Jew named aApollos, an bAlexandrian by birth, 1an eloquent man, came to cEphesus; and he was mighty in the Scriptures.
25 This man had been instructed in athe way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he was speaking and teaching accurately the things concerning Jesus, being acquainted only with bthe baptism of John;
26 and 1he began to speak …
Acts 7
1 The high priest said, “Are these things so?”
2 And he said, “Hear me, abrethren and fathers! bThe God of glory cappeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in 1Haran,
3 and said to him, ‘aLeave your country and your relatives, and come into the land that I will show you.’
4 “aThen he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in 1Haran. bFrom there, after his father died, God had him move to this country in which you are now living.
5 “But He gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot of ground, and yet, even when he had no child, aHe promised that He would give it to him as a possession, and to his descendants after him.
6 “But aGod spoke to this effect, that his descendants would be aliens in a foreign land, and that they would 1be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.
7 “ ‘And whatever nation to which they will be in bondage I Myself will judge,’ said God, ‘and aafter that they will come out and 1serve Me in this place.’
8 “And He agave him 1the covenant of circumcision; and so bAbraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day; and cIsaac became the father of Jacob, and dJacob of the twelve epatriarchs.
9 “The patriarchs abecame jealous of Joseph and sold him into Egypt. Yet God was with him,
10 and rescued him from all his afflictions, and agranted him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he made him governor over Egypt and all his household.
11 “Now aa famine came over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction with it, and our fathers 1could find no food.
12 “But awhen Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers there the first time.
13 “On the second visit aJoseph 1made himself known to his brothers, and bJoseph’s family was disclosed to Pharaoh.
14 “Then aJoseph sent word and invited Jacob his father and all his relatives to come to him, bseventy-five 1cpersons in all.
15 “And aJacob went down to Egypt and there he and our fathers died.
16 “From there they were removed to 1aShechem and laid in the tomb which Abraham had purchased for a sum of money from the sons of 2Hamor in 1Shechem.
17 “But as the atime of the promise was approaching which God had assured to Abraham, bthe people increased and multiplied in Egypt,
18 until athere arose another king over Egypt who knew nothing about Joseph.
19 “It was he who took ashrewd advantage of our race and mistreated our fathers so that they would 1bexpose their infants and they would not survive.
20 “It was at this time that aMoses was born; and he was lovely 1in the sight of God, and he was nurtured three months in his father’s home.
21 “And after he had been set outside, aPharaoh’s daughter 1took him away and nurtured him as her own son.
22 “Moses was educated in all athe learning of the Egyptians, and he was a man of power in words and deeds.
23 “But when he was approaching the age of forty, ait entered his 1mind to visit his brethren, the sons of Israel.
24 “And when he saw one of them being treated unjustly, he defended him and took vengeance for the oppressed by striking down the Egyptian.
25 “And he supposed that his brethren understood that God was granting them 1deliverance 2through him, but they did not understand.
26 “aOn the following day he appeared to them as they were fighting together, and he …