The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Apostles 18
1 After these things Paul departed from
Athens and came to Corinth.
2 He found a certain Jew named Aquila,
a man of Pontus by race, who had recently
come from Italy with his wife Priscilla,
because Claudius had commanded all the
Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,
3 and because he practiced the same
trade, he lived with them and worked, for
by trade they were tent makers.
4 He reasoned in the synagogue every
Sabbath and persuaded Jews and Greeks.
5 When Silas and Timothy came down
from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by
the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus
was the Christ.
6 When they opposed him and blasphemed,
he shook out his clothing and said to them,
“Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean.
From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!”
7 He departed there and went into the
house of a certain man named Justus, one
who worshiped God, whose house was
next door to the synagogue.
8 Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue,
believed in the Lord with all his house.
Many ofthe Corinthians, when they heard,
believed and were baptized.
9 The Lord said to Paul in the night by
a vision, “Don’t be afraid, but speak and
don’t be silent;
10 for I am with you, and no one will
attack you to harm you, for I have many
people in this city.”
11 He lived there a year and six months,
teaching the word of God among them.
12 But when Gallio was proconsul of
Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up
against Paul and brought him before the
judgment seat,
13 saying, “This man persuades men to
worship God contrary to the law.”
14 But when Paul was about to open his
mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If indeed
it were a matter of wrong or of wicked
crime, you Jews, it would be reasonable
that I should bear with you;
15 but if they are questions about words
and names and your own law, look to it
yourselves. For I don’t want to be a judge
of these matters.”
16 So he drove them from the judgment
seat.
17 Then all the Greeks seized Sosthenes,
the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him
before the judgment seat. Gallio didn’t
care about any of these things.
18 Paul, having stayed after this many
more days, took his leave of the brothers,†
and sailed from there for Syria, together
with Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his
head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow.
19 He came to Ephesus, and he left them
there; but he himself entered into the
synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.
20 When they asked him to stay with
them a longer time, he declined;
21 but taking his leave of them, he said, “I
must by allmeans keep this coming feastin
Jerusalem, but I will return again to you if
God wills.” Then he set sail from Ephesus.
22 When he had landed at Caesarea, he
went up and greeted the assembly, and
went down to Antioch.
23 Having spent some time there, he departed
and went through the region of
Galatia and Phrygia, in order, establishing
all the disciples.
24 Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an
Alexandrian by race, 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 accurately the
things concerning Jesus, although he knew
only the baptism of John.
26 He began to speak boldly in the
synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila
heard him, they took him aside, and
explained to him the way of God more
accurately.
27 When he had determined to pass over
into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him;
and wrote to the disciples to receive him.
When he had come, he greatly helped
those who had believed through grace;
28 for he powerfully refuted the Jews,
publicly showing by the Scriptures that
Jesus was the Christ.