After
these things Paul departed from Athens, and came
to Corinth;
02 And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in
Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife
Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded
all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto
them.
03 And because he was of the same craft, he abode
with them, and wrought: for by their occupation
they were tentmakers.
04 And he reasoned in the synagogue every
sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.
05 And when Silas and Timotheus were come from
Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and
testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.
06 And when they opposed themselves, and
blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto
them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am
clean; from henceforth I will go unto the
Gentiles.
07 And he departed thence, and entered into a
certain man's house, named Justus, one that
worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the
synagogue.
08 And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue,
believed on the Lord with all his house; and many
of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were
baptized.
09 Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a
vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not
thy peace:
10 For I am with thee, and no man shall set on
thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in this
city.
11 And he continued there a year and six months,
teaching the word of God among them.
12 And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the
Jews made insurrection with one accord against
Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat,
13 Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship
God contrary to the law.
14 And when Paul was now about to open his mouth,
Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of
wrong or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would
that I should bear with you:
15 But if it be a question of words and names,
and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no
judge of such matters.
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16 And he drave them from the judgment seat.
17 Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief
ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the
judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those
things.
18 And Paul after this tarried there yet a good
while, and then took his leave of the brethren,
and sailed thence into Syria, and with him
Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in
Cenchrea: for he had a vow.
19 And he came to Ephesus, and left them there:
but he himself entered into the synagogue, and
reasoned with the Jews.
20 When they desired him to tarry longer time
with them, he consented not;
21 But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all
means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem:
but I will return again unto you, if God will.
And he sailed from Ephesus.
22 And when he had landed at Caesarea, and gone
up, and saluted the church, he went down to
Antioch.
23 And after he had spent some time there, he
departed, and went over all the country of
Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all
the disciples.
24 And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at
Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the
scriptures, came to Ephesus.
25 This man was instructed in the way of the
Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake
and taught diligently the things of the Lord,
knowing only the baptism of John.
26 And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue:
whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they
took him unto them, and expounded unto him the
way of God more perfectly.
27 And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia,
the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to
receive him: who, when he was come, helped them
much which had believed through grace:
28 For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that
publicly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus
was Christ.
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