1 After this Paul left Athens and came to Corinth. 2 He found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to see them, 3 and because he practiced the same trade, he stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade. 4 Every Sabbath he reasoned in the synagogue and sought to persuade Jews and Greeks. 5 When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself to the word, bearing solemn witness to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ. 6 But when they opposed him and spoke blasphemously, he shook out his clothes and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.” 7 He left there and entered the house of a man named Titius Justus, who worshiped God. His house was next to the synagogue. 8 Crispus, the synagogue ruler, believed in the Lord with all his household, and many of the Corinthians who heard believed and were baptized. 9 The Lord said to Paul one night in a vision, “Do not be afraid, but keep speaking and do not be silent, 10 for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city.” 11 So he stayed a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them. 12 When Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews rose up together against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat, 13 saying, “This man persuades people to worship God contrary to the law.” 14 When Paul was about to speak, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of wrongdoing or a serious crime, Jews, I would have reason to hear you out. 15 But if these are disputes about words, names, and your own law, see to it yourselves. I am not willing to be a judge of these things.” 16 And he drove them away from the judgment seat. 17 They all seized Sosthenes, the synagogue ruler, and beat him before the judgment seat, but Gallio cared about none of these things. 18 Paul stayed many more days, then said farewell to the brothers and sailed for Syria, with Priscilla and Aquila accompanying him. He had cut his hair at Cenchreae, for he was under a vow. 19 They arrived at Ephesus, and he left them there. He himself entered the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews. 20 When they asked him to stay longer, he did not agree, 21 but took leave of them, saying, “I will return to you again, God willing.” Then he sailed from Ephesus. 22 He landed at Caesarea, went up and greeted the church, and went down to Antioch. 23 After spending some time there, he departed and traveled in order through the Galatian region and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples. 24 Now a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, mighty in the Scriptures. 25 He had been instructed in the way of the Lord, and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately about Jesus, though he knew only John’s baptism. 26 He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained the way of God to him more accurately. 27 When he wanted to cross over to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. On arriving, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace, 28 for he vigorously refuted the Jews in public, demonstrating through the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ.