1 After these things Paul departed from Athens and came to Corinth.
2 And he found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to depart from Rome; and he came to them;
3 and because he was of the same craft, he lodged with them and worked, for by occupation they were tentmakers.
4 And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and sought to persuade Jews and Greeks.
5 And when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit and testified to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.
6 But when they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his garments and said to them, "Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."
7 And he departed from there and entered the house of a certain man named Justus, one who worshiped God, whose house adjoined the synagogue.
8 And Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his household; and many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.
9 And the Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, "Do not be afraid, but speak and do not hold your peace,
10 for I am with you, and no one shall set on you to harm you; for I have many people in this city."
11 And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
12 But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews rose up with one accord against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,
13 saying, "This fellow persuades men to worship God contrary to the law."
14 And when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If it were a matter of wrong or wicked villainy, O Jews, it would be reasonable that I should bear with you;
15 but if it is a question of words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves; for I do not want to be a judge of such matters."
16 And he drove them away from the judgment seat.
17 Then all the Greeks seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat; and Gallio cared nothing about these things.
18 And Paul, having remained there yet a good many days, took leave of the brothers and sailed for Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila, having had his head shaved at Cenchreae, for he had a vow.
19 And he came to Ephesus and left them there; but he himself entered the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.
20 And when they asked him to stay a longer time with them, he did not consent,
21 but took leave of them, saying, "I must by all means keep this coming feast at Jerusalem; but I will return to you again, if God wills." And he set sail from Ephesus.
22 And when he had landed at Caesarea and gone up and greeted the church, he went down to Antioch.
23 And after he had spent some time there, he departed and went through the region of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples.
24 Now a certain Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus; he was mighty in the Scriptures.
25 This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John.
26 And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. And when Aquila and Priscilla heard him, they took him to themselves and expounded to him the way of God more accurately.
27 And when he wanted to cross over to Achaia, the brothers wrote, urging the disciples to receive him; and when he arrived, he helped much those who had believed through grace;
28 for he mightily refuted the Jews, and that publicly, showing by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.