Acts 18

¹And after these things, having left Athens, he came to Corinth;

²and finding a certain Jew by name Aquila, of Pontus by race, just come from Italy, and Priscilla his wife, (because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome,) came to them,

³and because they were of the same trade abode with them, and wrought. For they were tent-makers by trade.

⁴And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks.

⁵And when both Silas and Timotheus came down from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in respect of the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

⁶But as they opposed and spoke injuriously, he shook his clothes, and said to them, Your blood be upon your own head: I [am] pure; from henceforth I will go to the nations.

⁷And departing thence he came to the house of a certain [man], by name Justus, who worshipped God, whose house adjoined the synagogue.

⁸But Crispus the ruler of the synagogue believed in the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing, believed, and were baptised.

⁹And the Lord said by vision in [the] night to Paul, Fear not, but speak and be not silent;

¹⁰because I am with thee, and no one shall set upon thee to injure thee; because I have much people in this city.

¹¹And he remained [there] a year and six months, teaching among them the word of God.

¹²But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one consent rose against Paul and led him to the judgment-seat,