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Acts
Acts.18
[1] After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came
to Corinth;
[2] 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.
[3] And because he was of the same craft, he abode with
them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were
tentmakers.
[4] And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and
persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.
[5] And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia,
Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that
Jesus was Christ.
[6] 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.
[7] 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.
[8] 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.
[9] 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.
[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
publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.
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