¹After these things Paul departed from Athens and came to Corinth .

²He 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 ,

³and because he practised the same trade , he lived with them and worked , for by trade they were tent makers.

⁴He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and persuaded Jews and Greeks .

⁵When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia , Paul was compelled by the Spirit , testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ .

⁶When 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 !”

⁷He departed there and went into the house of a certain man named Justus , one who worshipped God , whose house was next door to the synagogue .

⁸Crispus , the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house . Many of the Corinthians , when they heard, believed and were baptised.

⁹The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision , “Don’ t be afraid , but speak and don’ t be silent ;

¹⁰for I am with you , and no one will attack you to harm you , for I have many people in this city .”

¹¹He lived there a year and six months , teaching the word of God amongst them .

¹²But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgement seat,

¹³saying , “This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law .”

¹⁴But 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 ;

¹⁵but 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 .”

¹⁶So he drove them from the judgement seat.

¹⁷Then all the Greeks seized Sosthenes , the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgement seat. Gallio didn’t care about any of these things .

¹⁸Paul , 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 .[#18:18 The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”]

¹⁹He came to Ephesus , and he left them there ; but he himself entered into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews .

²⁰When they asked him to stay with them a longer time , he declined;

²¹but taking his leave of them , he said , “I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you if God wills .” Then he set sail from Ephesus .

²²When he had landed at Caesarea , he went up and greeted the assembly , and went down to Antioch.

²³Having spent some time there , he departed and went through the region of Galatia and Phrygia , in order , establishing all the disciples .

²⁴Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race , an eloquent man , came to Ephesus . He was mighty in the Scriptures .

²⁵This 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 .

²⁶He 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.

²⁷When 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 ;

²⁸for he powerfully refuted the Jews , publicly showing by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ .