1 After these things he left AActs 17:15Athens and went to BActs 18:8; 19:1; 1 Cor 1:2; 2 Cor 1:1, 23; 6:11; 2 Tim 4:20Corinth. 2 And he found a Jew named AActs 18:18, 26; Rom 16:3; 1 Cor 16:19; 2 Tim 4:19Aquila, a native of BActs 2:9Pontus, having recently come from CActs 27:1, 6; Heb 13:24Italy with his wife AActs 18:18, 26; Rom 16:3; 1 Cor 16:19; 2 Tim 4:19Priscilla, because DActs 11:28Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. He came to them, 3 and because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them and AActs 20:34; 1 Cor 4:12; 9:14f; 2 Cor 11:7; 12:13; 1 Thess 2:9; 4:11; 2 Thess 3:8they were working, for by trade they were tent-makers. 4 And he was reasoning AActs 9:20; 18:19in the synagogue every BActs 13:14Sabbath and trying to persuade CActs 14:1Jews and Greeks.

5 But when AActs 15:22; 16:1; 17:14Silas and Timothy BActs 17:15came down from CActs 16:9Macedonia, Paul began devoting himself completely to the word, solemnly DLuke 16:28; Acts 20:21testifying to the Jews that EActs 17:3; 18:28Jesus was the 1I.e. MessiahChrist. 6 But when they resisted and blasphemed, he ANeh 5:13; Acts 13:51shook out his garments and said to them, “Your B2 Sam 1:16; 1 Kin 2:33; Ezek 18:13; 33:4, 6, 8; Matt 27:25; Acts 20:26blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on I will go CActs 13:46to the Gentiles.” 7 Then he left there and went to the house of a man named 1One early ms reads Titus; two other early mss omit the nameTitius Justus, AActs 13:43; 16:14a worshiper of God, whose house was next to the synagogue. 8 A1 Cor 1:14Crispus, BMark 5:22the leader of the synagogue, believed in the Lord CActs 11:14with all his household, and many of the DActs 18:1; 19:1; 1 Cor 1:2; 2 Cor 1:1, 23; 6:11; 2 Tim 4:20Corinthians when they heard were believing and being baptized. 9 And the Lord said to Paul in the night by AActs 9:10a vision, “Do not be afraid any longer, but go on speaking and do not be silent; 10 for I am with you, and no man will attack you in order to harm you, for I have many people in this city.” 11 And he settled there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

12 But while Gallio was AActs 13:7proconsul of BActs 18:27; 19:21; Rom 15:26; 1 Cor 16:15; 2 Cor 1:1; 9:2; 11:10; 1 Thess 1:7fAchaia, C1 Thess 2:14ffthe Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before DMatt 27:19the judgment seat, 13 saying, “This man persuades men to worship God contrary to AJohn 19:7; Acts 18:15the law.” 14 But when Paul was about to AMatt 5:2open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of wrong or of vicious crime, O Jews, it would be reasonable for me to put up with you; 15 but if there are AActs 23:29; 25:19questions about words and names and your own law, look after it yourselves; I am unwilling to be a judge of these matters.” 16 And he drove them away from AMatt 27:19the judgment seat. 17 And they all took hold of A1 Cor 1:1Sosthenes, BActs 18:8the leader of the synagogue, and began beating him in front of CMatt 27:19the judgment seat. But Gallio was not concerned about any of these things.

18 Paul, having remained many days longer, AMark 6:46took leave of BActs 1:15; 18:27the brethren and put out to sea for CMatt 4:24Syria, and with him were DActs 18:2, 26Priscilla and DActs 18:2, 26Aquila. In ERom 16:1Cenchrea 1Lit having his hair cuthe FNum 6:2, 5, 9, 18; Acts 21:24had his hair cut, for he was keeping a vow. 19 They came to AActs 18:21, 24; 19:1, 17, 26, 28, 34f; 20:16f; 21:29; 1 Cor 15:32; 16:8; Eph 1:1; 1 Tim 1:3; 2 Tim 1:18; 4:12; Rev 1:11; 2:1Ephesus, and he left them there. Now he himself entered BActs 18:4the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews. 20 When they asked him to stay for a longer time, he did not consent, 21 but AMark 6:46taking leave of them and saying, “I will return to you again BRom 1:10; 15:32; 1 Cor 4:19; 16:7; Heb 6:3; James 4:15; 1 Pet 3:17if God wills,” he set sail from CActs 18:19, 24; 19:1, 17, 26, 28, 34f; 20:16f; 21:29; 1 Cor 15:32; 16:8; Eph 1:1; 1 Tim 1:3; 2 Tim 1:18; 4:12; Rev 1:11; 2:1Ephesus.

22 When he had landed at AActs 8:40Caesarea, he went up and greeted the church, and went down to BActs 11:19Antioch.

23 And having spent some time there, he left and passed successively through the AActs 16:6Galatian region and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.

24 Now a Jew named AActs 19:1; 1 Cor 1:12; 3:5, 6, 22; 4:6; 16:12; Titus 3:13Apollos, an BActs 6:9Alexandrian by birth, 1Or a learned manan eloquent man, came to CActs 18:19Ephesus; and he was mighty in the Scriptures. 25 This man had been instructed in AActs 9:2; 18:26the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he was speaking and teaching accurately the things concerning Jesus, being acquainted only with BLuke 7:29; Acts 19:3the baptism of John; 26 and 1Lit this manhe began to speak out boldly in the synagogue. But when AActs 18:2, 18Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him BActs 18:25the way of God more accurately. 27 And when he wanted to go across to AActs 18:12; 19:1Achaia, BActs 18:18the brethren encouraged him and wrote to CActs 11:26the disciples to welcome him; and when he had arrived, he greatly 1Or helped greatly through grace those who had believedhelped those who had believed through grace, 28 for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, demonstrating AActs 8:35by the Scriptures that BActs 18:5Jesus was the 1I.e. MessiahChrist.