Acts 18:4–11

⁴Every Sabbath he would argue in the synagogue and would try to convince Jews and Greeks.^*

⁵When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with proclaiming the word,^v testifying to the Jews that the Messiah^w was Jesus.^{* 6}When they opposed and reviled him, in protest he shook the dust from his clothes^x and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the gentiles.”^{* 7}Then he left the synagogue^y and went to the house of a man named Titius^z Justus, a worshiper of God; his house was next door to the synagogue.^{* 8}Crispus, the official of the synagogue, became a believer in the Lord, together with all his household, and many of the Corinthians who heard Paul became believers and were baptized.^{* 9}One night the Lord said to Paul in a vision, “Do not be afraid, but speak and do not be silent,^{* 10}for I am with you, and no one will lay a hand on you to harm you, for there are many in this city who are my people.”^{* 11}He stayed there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.