Acts 18:1
New International Version
After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.

New Living Translation
Then Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.

English Standard Version
After this Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.

Berean Standard Bible
After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.

Berean Literal Bible
And after these things, having departed from Athens, he came to Corinth.

King James Bible
After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth;

New King James Version
After these things Paul departed from Athens and went to Corinth.

New American Standard Bible
After these events Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.

NASB 1995
After these things he left Athens and went to Corinth.

NASB 1977
After these things he left Athens and went to Corinth.

Legacy Standard Bible
After these things he departed Athens and went to Corinth.

Amplified Bible
After this Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.

Christian Standard Bible
After this, he left Athens and went to Corinth,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
After this, he left Athens and went to Corinth,

American Standard Version
After these things he departed from Athens, and came to Corinth.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And when Paulus went out from Athens, he came to Corinthus.

Contemporary English Version
Paul left Athens and went to Corinth,

Douay-Rheims Bible
AFTER these things, departing from Athens, he came to Corinth.

English Revised Version
After these things he departed from Athens, and came to Corinth.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
After this, Paul left Athens and went to the city of Corinth.

Good News Translation
After this, Paul left Athens and went on to Corinth.

International Standard Version
After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.

Literal Standard Version
And after these things, Paul having departed out of Athens, came to Corinth,

Majority Standard Bible
After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.

New American Bible
After this he left Athens and went to Corinth.

NET Bible
After this Paul departed from Athens and went to Corinth.

New Revised Standard Version
After this Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.

New Heart English Bible
After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth.

Webster's Bible Translation
After these things, Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth;

Weymouth New Testament
After this he left Athens and came to Corinth.

World English Bible
After these things Paul departed from Athens and came to Corinth.

Young's Literal Translation
And after these things, Paul having departed out of Athens, came to Corinth,

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Context
Paul's Ministry in Corinth
1After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. 2There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to visit them,…

Cross References
Acts 17:15
Those who escorted Paul brought him to Athens and then returned with instructions for Silas and Timothy to join him as soon as possible.

Acts 17:16
While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was deeply disturbed in his spirit to see that the city was full of idols.

Acts 18:8
Crispus, the synagogue leader, and his whole household believed in the Lord. And many of the Corinthians who heard the message believed and were baptized.

Acts 19:1
While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the interior and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples

1 Corinthians 1:2
To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:

2 Corinthians 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God in Corinth, together with all the saints throughout Achaia:

2 Corinthians 1:23
I call God as my witness that it was in order to spare you that I did not return to Corinth.


Treasury of Scripture

After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth;

departed.

Acts 17:32,33
And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter

Corinth.

Acts 19:1
And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,

1 Corinthians 1:2
Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:

2 Corinthians 1:1,23
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia: …

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Acts 18
1. Paul labors with his hands, and preaches at Corinth to the Gentiles.
9. The Lord encourages him in a vision.
12. He is accused before Gallio the deputy, but is dismissed.
18. Afterwards passing from city to city, he strengthens the disciples.
24. Apollos, being instructed by Aquila and Priscilla, preaches Christ boldly.














XVIII.

(1) And came to Corinth.--The journey may have been either by land along the Isthmus of Corinth, or by sea from the Piraeus to Cenchreae. The position of Corinth on the Isthmus, with a harbour on either shore, Cenchreae on the east, Lechaeum on the west, had naturally made it a place of commercial importance at a very early stage of Greek history. With commerce had come luxury and vice, and the verb Corinthiazein= to live as the Corinthians, had become proverbial, as early as the time of Aristophanes (Frag. 133), for a course of profligacy. The harlot priestesses of the Temple of Aphrodite gave a kind of consecration to the deep dyed impurity of Greek social life, of which we find traces in 1Corinthians 5:1; 1Corinthians 6:9-19. The Isthmian games, which were celebrated every fourth year, drew crowds of competitors and spectators from all parts of Greece, and obviously furnished the Apostle with the agonistic imagery of 1Corinthians 9:24-27. Less distinguished for higher culture than Athens, it was yet able (standing to Athens in much the same relation as Venice did to Florence from the 13th to the 16th century) to boast of its artists in stone and metal (Corinthian bronze was proverbial for its excellence), of its rhetoricians and philosophers. On its conquest by the Roman general Mummius (B.C. 146), many of its buildings had been destroyed, and its finest statues had been carried off to Rome; and it was a Roman jest that the general had bound the captains of the ships that carried them, to replace them in case of loss. A century later, Julius Caesar determined to restore it to its former splendour, and thousands of freed-men were employed in the work of reconstruction. Such was the scene of the Apostle's new labours, less promising, at first sight, than Athens, but, ultimately, far more fruitful in results.

(1) There can be no doubt that the "vow" was that of the temporary Nazarite, as described in Numbers 6:1-21. It implied a separation from the world and common life (this was the meaning of the word "Nazarite"), and while under the vow the man who had taken it was to drink no wine or strong drink, and to let no razor pass over his head or face. When the term was completed, he was to shave his head at the door of the Tabernacle, and burn the hair in the fire of the altar. It will be noted that the Nazarites in Acts 21:24, who are completing their vow, shave their heads. Here a different word ("shorn") is used, which is contrasted with "shaving" in 1Corinthians 11:6. It was lawful for a man to have his hair cut or cropped during the continuance of the vow, and this apparently was what St. Paul now did. But in this case also the hair so cut off was to be taken to the Temple and burnt there, and this explains the Apostle's eagerness "by all means" (Acts 18:21) to keep the coming feast at Jerusalem. . . .

Verse 1. - He for Paul, A.V. and T.R. After these things, etc. No hint is given by St. Luke as to the length of Paul's sojourn at Athens. But as the double journey of the Beroeans, who accompanied him to Athens, back to Beraea, and of Timothy from Beraea to Athens, amounted to above five hundred miles (Lewin, p. 268), we cannot suppose it to have been less than a month; and it may have been a good deal more. His reasonings in the synagogue with the Jews and devout Greeks, apparently on successive sabbaths, his daily disputations in the Agora, apparently not begun till after he had "waited" some time for Silas and Timothy, the knowledge he had acquired of the numerous temples and altars at Athens, and the phrase with which this chapter begins, all indicate a stay of some length. Came to Corinth. If by land, a forty miles' or two days' journey, through Eleusis and Megara; if by sea, a day's sail. Lewin thinks he came by sea, and that it was in winter, and that possibly one of the shipwrecks mentioned in 2 Corinthians 11:25 may have occurred at this time. Corinth, at this time a Roman colony, the capital of the province of Achaia, and the residence of the proconsul. It was a great commercial city, the center of the trade of the Levant, and consequently a great resort of the Jews. It had a very large Greek population. Ancient Corinth had been destroyed by Mummins, surnamed Achaicus, R.C. 146, and remained waste (ἐρήμη) many years. Julius Caesar founded a Roman colony on the old site (Howson), "consisting principally of freedmen, among whom were great numbers of the Jewish race." Corinth, as a Roman colony, had its duumviri, as appears by coins of the reign of Claudius (Lewin, p. 270.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
After
Μετὰ (Meta)
Preposition
Strong's 3326: (a) gen: with, in company with, (b) acc: (1) behind, beyond, after, of place, (2) after, of time, with nouns, neut. of adjectives.

this,
ταῦτα (tauta)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's 3778: This; he, she, it.

[Paul] left
χωρισθεὶς (chōristheis)
Verb - Aorist Participle Passive - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 5563: From chora; to place room between, i.e. Part; reflexively, to go away.

Athens
Ἀθηνῶν (Athēnōn)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Plural
Strong's 116: Athens, the intellectual capital of Greece. Plural of Athene; Athenoe, the capitol of Greece.

[and] went
ἦλθεν (ēlthen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 2064: To come, go.

to
εἰς (eis)
Preposition
Strong's 1519: A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.

Corinth.
Κόρινθον (Korinthon)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 2882: Corinthus, a city of Greece.


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