Acts:18:1-18

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* AFTER this Paul left Athens and came to Corinth . * There he found a Jew named Aquila , born in Pontus but recently come from Italy with Priscilla his wife , because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome . Paul visited these people , * and because he was of the same trade stayed with them and they worked together ; for by trade they were tent-makers . * But in the synagogue every Sabbath he reasoned and endeavored to persuade both Jews and Greeks . * When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia , Paul was absorbed by the message , bearing witness to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ . * When they resisted and spoke profane words , he rent his garments and said to them , "Your blood is on your own heads . I am clear , and from now on I am going to the Gentiles ." * So he changed over from there and came into the house of a man named Titus Justus , who reverenced God . His house was next to the synagogue . * Crispus , the synagogue Director , believed in the Lord with all his household , and many of the Corinthians when they heard believed and were baptized . * The Lord spoke in the night by a vision to Paul , riversident @Acts:18:10 " /> * So he stayed a year and six months , teaching among them the message of God . * While Gallio was Proconsul of Achaia , the Jews with one mind made an attack on Paul and brought him before the court , * saying , "This man is inducing men to worship God in a way contrary to law ." * As Paul was about to open his mouth , Gallio said to the Jews , "If it was some crime or wicked knavery , O you Jews , I would have reasonable patience with you . * But if it is a dispute about doctrine and names and your own law , see to it yourselves . I will not be a judge of these things ," * and he drove them from before the judge 's seat . * Then they laid hold of Sosthenes , the synagogue Director , and beat him right in front of the judge 's seat . But Gallio cared for none of these things . * Paul remained a number of days more . Then after taking leave of the brethren he sailed away to Syria , and Priscilla and Aquila went with him . He had shaved his head at Cenchreae , for he had a vow .

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