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Chapter 18 |
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1 | After these things Paul departed from
Athens, and came to Corinth; |
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2 | And found a certain Jew named Aquila,
born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that
Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.
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| 3 | And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought:
for by their occupation they were tentmakers. |
| 4 | And he
reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the
Greeks. |
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And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul
was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was
Christ. |
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And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his
raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean;
from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles. |
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7 | And he departed thence,
and entered into a certain man's house, named Justus, one that worshipped God,
whose house joined hard to the synagogue. |
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8 | And Crispus, the chief ruler
of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the
Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized. |
| 9 | Then spake the
Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not
thy peace: |
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| For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt
thee: for I have much people in this city. |
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11 | And he continued there
a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them. |
| 12 | And when
Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord
against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat, |
| 13 | Saying, This
fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law. |
| 14 | And when
Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a
matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear
with you: |
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| But if it be a question of words and names, and of your
law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters. |
| 16 | And he
drave them from the judgment seat. |
| 17 | Then all the Greeks took
Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment
seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things. |
| 18 | And Paul
after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the
brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila;
having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow. |
| 19 | And he came
to Ephesus, and left them there: but he himself entered into the synagogue, and
reasoned with the Jews. |
| 20 | When they desired him to tarry longer time
with them, he consented not; |
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21 | But bade them farewell, saying, I must
by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again
unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus. |
| 22 | And when he
had landed at Caesarea, and gone up, and saluted the church, he went down to
Antioch. |
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| And after he had spent some time there, he departed, and
went over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all
the disciples. |
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24 | And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at
Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to
Ephesus. |
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| This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being
fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord,
knowing only the baptism of John. |
| 26 | And he began to speak boldly
in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto
them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly. |
| 27 | And when
he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the
disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped them much which had
believed through grace: |
| 28 | For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that
publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ. |
