Acts 18:1–18

Paul at Corinth

¹After these things he left ^aAthens and went to ^bCorinth.

²And he found a Jew named ^aAquila, a native of ^bPontus, having recently come from ^cItaly with his wife Priscilla, because ^dClaudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. He came to them,

³and because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them and ^athey were working, for by trade they were tent-makers.

⁴And he was reasoning ^ain the synagogue every ^bSabbath and trying to persuade ^cJews and Greeks.

⁵But 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.

⁶But 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.”

⁷Then 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.

^8aCrispus, ^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.

⁹And 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;

¹⁰for I am with you, and no man will attack you in order to harm you, for I have many people in this city.”

¹¹And he settled there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

¹²But while Gallio was ^aproconsul of ^bAchaia, ^cthe Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before ^dthe judgment seat,

¹³saying, “This man persuades men to worship God contrary to ^athe law.”

¹⁴But 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;

¹⁵but 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.”

¹⁶And he drove them away from ^athe judgment seat.

¹⁷And 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.

¹⁸Paul, having remained many days longer, ^atook leave of ^bthe brethren and put out to sea for ^cSyria, and with him were ^dPriscilla and Aquila. In ^eCenchrea ¹he ^fhad his hair cut, for he was keeping a vow.