18:1   After these things he left Athens and went to Corinth.

18:2   And he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, having recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. He came to them,

18:3   and because he worked in the same trade, he stayed with them and they worked, for by trade they made tents.

18:4  And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath trying to persuade Jews and Greeks.

18:5   But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul began devoting himself completely to the word, solemnly testifying to the Jews that we acknowledge Jesus as the Christ.

18:6   But when they resisted and blasphemed, he shook out his garments and said to them, "Your blood goes on your own heads! I remain clean From now on I will go to the Gentiles."

18:7   Then he left there and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God, whose house located next to the synagogue.

18:8   Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his household, and many of the Corinthians when they heard believed and received baptism.

18:9   And the Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, "Do not fear any longer, but go on speaking and do not remain silent;

18:10   for I will accompany you, and no man will attack you in order to harm you, for I have many people in this city."

18:11   And he settled there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

18:12  But while Gallio ruled as 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 prepared to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If it consisted of a matter of wrong or of vicious crime, O Jews, I would put up with you;

18:15   but if you bring up questions about words and names and your own law, look after it yourselves; I do not want to judge these matters."

18:16   And he drove them away from the judgment seat.

18:17   And they all took hold of Sosthenes, the leader of the synagogue, and began beating him in front of the judgment seat. But Gallio did not concern himself about any of these things.

18:18   Paul, having remained many days longer, took leave of the brethren and put out to sea for Syria, and with him came Priscilla and Aquila In Cenchrea he had his hair cut, for he kept a vow.

18:19   They came to Ephesus, and he left them there Now he himself entered the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.

18:20   When they asked him to stay for a longer time, he did not consent,

18:21   but taking leave of them and saying, "I will return to you again if God wills," he set sail from Ephesus.

18:22   When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the church, and went down to Antioch.

18:23   And having spent some time there, he left and passed successively through the Galatian region and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.

18:24   Now a Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus; and he seemed mighty in the Scriptures.

18:25   This man had received instruction in the way of the Lord; and having fervency in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, acquainted only with the baptism of John;

18:26  and he began to speak out 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  And when he wanted to go across to Achaia, the brethren encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him; and when he had arrived, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace,

18:28   for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, demonstrating by the Scriptures that Jesus fulfilled the role of the Christ.