Acts 18:1-12

1After this Paul departed from Athens and went to Corinth.

2There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to depart from Rome. Paul approached them,

3and because he worked at the same trade, he stayed with them and worked with them (for they were tentmakers by trade).

4He addressed both Jews and Greeks in the synagogue every Sabbath, attempting to persuade them.

5Now when Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul became wholly absorbed with proclaiming the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

6When they opposed him and reviled him, he protested by shaking out his clothes and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am guiltless! From now on I will go to the Gentiles!”

7Then Paul left the synagogue and went to the house of a person named Titius Justus, a Gentile who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.

8Crispus, the president of the synagogue, believed in the Lord together with his entire household, and many of the Corinthians who heard about it believed and were baptized.

9The Lord said to Paul by a vision in the night, “Do not be afraid, but speak and do not be silent,

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

11So he stayed there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

12Now while Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews attacked Paul together and brought him before the judgment seat,