The Acts of the Emissaries, Chapter 18
{18:1} After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to
Corinth. {18:2} He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus
by race, who had recently come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla,
because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He
came to them, {18:3} and because he practiced the same trade, he lived
with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers. {18:4} He
reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded Jews and
Greeks. {18:5} But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia,
Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Yeshua
was the Messiah. {18:6} When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook
out his clothing and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I
am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!"
{18:7} He departed there, and went into the house of a certain man
named Justus, one who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the
synagogue. {18:8} Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the
Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard,
believed and were immersed. {18:9} The Lord said to Paul in the night
by a vision, "Don't be afraid, but speak and don't be silent; {18:10}
for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have
many people in this city."
{18:11} He lived there a year and six months, teaching the word of
God among them. {18:12} But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the
Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the
judgment seat, {18:13} saying, "This man persuades men to worship God
contrary to the law."
{18:14} But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to
the Jews, "If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked crime, you
Jews, it would be reasonable that I should bear with you; {18:15} but
if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to
it yourselves. For I don't want to be a judge of these matters."
{18:16} He drove them from the judgment seat.
{18:17} Then all the Greeks laid hold on Sosthenes, the ruler of the
synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. Gallio didn't care
about any of these things.
{18:18} Paul, having stayed after this many more days, took his
leave of the [1>]brothers,[<1] and sailed from there for Syria,
together with Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his head in Cenchreae,
for he had a vow. {18:19} He came to Ephesus, and he left them there;
but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.
{18:20} When they asked him to stay with them a longer time, he
declined; {18:21} but taking his leave of them, and saying, "I must by
all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again
to you if God wills," he set sail from Ephesus.
{18:22} When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the
assembly, and went down to Antioch. {18:23} Having spent some time
there, he departed, and went through the region of Galatia, and
Phrygia, in order, establishing all the disciples. {18:24} Now a
certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man,
came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures. {18:25} This man had
been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit,
he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Yeshua, although
he knew only the immersion of Yochanan. {18:26} He began to speak
boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they
took him aside, and explained to him the way of God more accurately.
{18:27} When he had determined to pass over into Achaia, the
brothers encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him.
When he had come, he greatly helped those who had believed through
grace; {18:28} for he powerfully refuted the Jews, publicly showing by
the Scriptures that Yeshua was the Messiah.
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Footnotes:
[1] {18:18} The word for "brothers" here and where the context allows
may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."
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