ACTS 18 1-16

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     Book of the Acts of the First Believers

1 - Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. 2 And there he met a Hebrew (a Jew) named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Emperor Claudius had ordered all Hebrews out of Rome.

     Paul went to see them, 3 and because he was of the same trade as they were, he stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers.

     4 And he was reasoning in the synagogue every Sabbath, trying to persuade both Jews and Greeks the word (message) that Jesus was Messiah. 5 But at about the time Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, 6 they began throwing insults at him, for they had been opposing him. So Paul shook out his garments against them, and said, “The consequences be on your own heads! I’m innocent! From now on I’m going to the Gentiles!”

     7 He left there and went next door to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God. 8 And Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, also believed in the Lord, along with all his household. And many of the Corinthians listening to Paul believed and were baptized.

     9 The Lord said to Paul one night in a vision, “Don’t be afraid, but go on speaking and don’t be silent, 10 for I’m with you, and no one will attack to harm you, for I have many here in Corinth, who are my people.” 11 And Paul stayed a year and six months, teaching the word/message of God among them.

     12 But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the leaders of the synagogue made a unified attack on Paul and brought him before the Roman tribunal, 13 saying, “This man is persuading people to worship God contrary to Roman law!” 14 But when Paul was about to speak in his defense, Gallio said, “If it were a matter of wrong doing or a vicious crime, I would have reason to accept your complaint! 15 But since it’s a matter of questions about words and names and your own laws, see to it yourselves! I refuse to be a judge of these things.” 16 And he sent them away from the tribunal.

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