| Chapter 18
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| 1 | After these
things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth; |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 5 | And when Silas
and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and
testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ. |
| 6 | 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. |
| 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: |
| 10 | For I am with thee, and
no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city. |
| 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: |
| 15 | 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; |
| 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. |
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22 | And when he had landed at Caesarea, and gone up,
and saluted the church, he went down to Antioch. |
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23 | 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. |
| 24 |
And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and
mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus. |
| 25 | 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: |
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28 | For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that
publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ. |
