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Acts - ch 18 v 1 - 20
- After these things he departed from Athens, and came to Corinth.
- And he found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome: and he came unto them;
- and because he was of the same trade, he abode with them, and they wrought, for by their trade they were tentmakers.
- And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks.
- But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was constrained by the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.
- And when they opposed themselves and blasphemed, he shook out his raiment and said unto them, Your blood `be' upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.
- And he departed thence, and went into the house of a certain man named Titus Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue.
- And Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.
- And the Lord said unto Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak and hold not thy peace:
- for I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to harm thee: for I have much people in this city.
- And he dwelt `there' a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
- But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment-seat,
- saying, This man persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.
- But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked villany, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:
- but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves; I am not minded to be a judge of these matters.
- And he drove them from the judgment-seat.
- And they all laid hold on Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment-seat. And Gallio cared for none of these things.
- And Paul, having tarried after this yet many days, took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence for Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila: having shorn his head in Cenchreae; for he had a vow.
- And they came to Ephesus, and he left them there: but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.
- And when they asked him to abide a longer time, he consented not;
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