Acts 18:1-10
1 After this, he ▼▼Other mss read Paul
left Athens and went to Corinth, b 2where he found a Jewish man named Aquila, c a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius ▼ had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul came to them, 3 and being of the same occupation, stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers ▼▼Or leatherworkers, or less likely manufacturers of theatrical properties
by trade. f 4He reasoned in the ▼▼synagogue(s): A place where the Jewish people met for prayer, worship and teaching of the Scriptures
synagogue every Sabbath and tried to persuade both Jews and Greeks. h 5 When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with preaching the message ▼▼Other mss read was urged by the Spirit
and solemnly testified to the Jews that Jesus is the ▼▼Messiah: Or the Christ; the Greek word Christos means "the anointed one".
Messiah. k 6 But when they resisted and blasphemed, l he shook his robe ▼
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n and told them, “Your blood is on your own heads! o I am innocent. ▼▼Lit clean
From now on I will go to the Gentiles.” q 7 So he left there and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God, whose house was next door to the synagogue. 8 Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, believed the Lord, along with his whole household. r Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized. 9 Then the Lord said to Paul in a night vision, “Don’t be afraid, but keep on speaking and don’t be silent. 10 For I am with you, and no one will lay a hand on you to hurt you, because I have many people in this city.” s
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