Acts 18:1-16 ▼

1 After these things having departed from Athens, he came to Corinth.

2 And having found a certain Jew by name Aquila, a Pontic by race, having recently come from Italy, and Priscilla his wife; because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome: he came to them:

3 and because they were of the same craft, abode with them, and they labored: for they were tentmakers by trade.

4 And he spoke in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded both Jews and Greeks.

5 And when both Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was straitened with the word, witnessing to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.

6 And they opposing, and blaspheming, shaking his garments, he said to them, Your blood be upon your own head; I am pure: from now I will go to the Gentiles.

7 And having departed thence, he came into the house of a certain Titus, Justus by name, worshiping God, whose house is joined to the synagogue.

8 But 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.

9 And the Lord spoke to Paul in the night through a vision, Fear not, but speak, and be not silent:

10 because I am with thee, and no man shall assault thee to hurt thee: because there is much people to me in this city.

11 And he spent a year and six months teaching the word of God among them.

12 But Gallio being proconsul of Achaia, the Jews of one accord arose up against Paul, and led him to the tribunal,

13 saying, This one persuades men to worship God contrary to law.

14 And Paul being about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, If it were some injustice or wicked rascality, O Jews, I would bear with you according to reason:

15 but if there are questions about the words and name, and law appertaining to you, yourselves shall see to it; I do not wish to be judge of these things.

16 And he drove them away from the tribunal.