Acts, Chapter 18
{18:1} After these things Sha'ul departed from Athens, and came to
Corinth. {18:2} He found a certain Yehudi named Aquila, a man of
Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy, with his wife
Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Yehudim 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 Shabbat, and
persuaded Yehudim and Yevanim. {18:5} But when Sila and Timothy came
down from Macedonia, Sha'ul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to
the Yehudim 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
Goyim!"
{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, hearing, believed
and were immersed. {18:9} The Lord said to Sha'ul 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
Yehudim with one accord rose up against Sha'ul 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 Sha'ul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to
the Yehudim, "If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked crime,
Yehudim, 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 Yevanim 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} Sha'ul, having stayed after this yet many days, took his
leave of the brothers, and sailed from there for Aram, and Priscilla
and Aquila with him. 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 Yehudim.
{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 Yerushalayim, 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 [1>]talmidim[<1]. {18:24} Now
a certain Yehudi 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 [2>]talmidim[<2] to
receive him. When he had come, he helped them much, who had believed
through grace; {18:28} for he powerfully refuted the Yehudim, publicly
showing by the scriptures that Yeshua was the Messiah.
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Footnotes:
[1] {18:23} disciples
[2] {18:27} disciples
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