Acts 18:1-12

1After these things, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.

2There he found a Jewish man named Aquila—a native of Pontus having recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all Jewish people to leave Rome. Paul went to see them;

3and because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them and began working, for by trade they were tent-makers.

4And he was debating every Shabbat in the synagogue, trying to persuade both Jewish and Greek people.

5Now when Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul became occupied with the message, urgently testifying to the Jewish people that Yeshua is the Messiah.

6But when they resisted and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said, “Your blood be upon your own heads—I am clean! From now on, I will go to the Gentiles.”

7After leaving there, Paul went into the house of a man named Titius Justus, a God-fearer whose house was next door to the synagogue.

8Crispus, the synagogue leader, put his faith in the Lord, along with his whole household. And many of the Corinthians, upon hearing, were believing and being immersed.

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

10For I am with you and no one shall attack you to harm you—many people in this city are for Me.”

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

12But while Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jewish leaders made a united attack against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,