18:1After these things, going out from Athens, he came to Corinth: and finding a certain Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had lately come from Italy, and Priscilla his wife (because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome), he went to them. 18:3And because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them, and was working. 18:3(For they were of the tent-making trade.) And he was disputing in the synagogue every sabbath, bringing in the name of the Lord Jesus: and he was persuading Jews and Greeks. 18:5And when Silas and Timothy had come from Macedonia, Paul was pressing on with the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.
18:6But when they spoke against him, and blasphemed, shaking out his garments, he said to them: "Your blood be upon your head: I am clean: from now on I will go to the Gentiles." 18:7And moving from there, he went into the house of a certain man, named Titus Justus, one who worshipped God, whose house was joined to the synagogue. 18:8And Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his household: and many of the Corinthians, hearing, were believing, and being baptized. 18:9And the Lord said by night through a vision to Paul: "Do not be afraid, but speak, and do not be silent: for I am with you, and no one will be set upon you to harm you: since there is much people for me in this city."
18:11And he settled there a year and six months, teaching among them the word of God. 18:12But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews rose up with one mind against Paul, and brought him to the tribunal, saying: "This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law." 18:14But when Paul was beginning to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews: "If indeed it were some wrong or a very wicked crime, O men, Jews, I would rightly bear with you. 18:15But if they are questions about word, and names, and your law, you yourselves see to it: a judge of these things I do not wish to be."
18:16And he drove them from the tribunal. 18:17But all of them, seizing Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, were beating him before the tribunal: and none of these things was of concern to Gallio. 18:18But Paul, when he had stayed on still many days, bidding farewell to the brothers, sailed into Syria (and with him Priscilla and Aquila), having shorn his head in Cenchreae: for he had a vow. 18:19And he came down to Ephesus, and left them there. 18:19But he himself, having gone into the synagogue, was disputing with the Jews. 18:20And when they were asking him to stay a longer time, he did not consent, but bidding farewell, and saying: "I will return to you again, God willing": he set out from Ephesus.
18:22And going down to Caesarea, he went up, and greeted the church, and went down to Antioch. 18:23And some time having been spent there, he set out, walking through in order the Galatian region, and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples. 18:24Now a certain Jew, Apollos by name, an Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man, came down to Ephesus, mighty in the scriptures. 18:25This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord: and being fervent in spirit he was speaking, and teaching carefully the things which are of Jesus, knowing only the baptism of John. 18:26This man, therefore, began to act confidently in the synagogue. 18:26And when Priscilla and Aquila had heard him, they took him aside, and expounded to him more carefully the way of the Lord.
18:27And when he wished to go to Achaia, the brothers, having encouraged him, wrote to the disciples that they should receive him. 18:27Who, when he had come, contributed much to those who had believed. 18:28For he was vehemently refuting the Jews in public, showing through the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ.