riversident - Acts:18:1-18

riversident@Acts:18:1 @ AFTER this Paul left Athens and came to Corinth.

riversident@Acts:18:2 @ 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,

riversident@Acts:18:3 @ and because he was of the same trade stayed with them and they worked together; for by trade they were tent-makers.

riversident@Acts:18:4 @ But in the synagogue every Sabbath he reasoned and endeavored to persuade both Jews and Greeks.

riversident@Acts:18:5 @ When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was absorbed by the message, bearing witness to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

riversident@Acts:18:6 @ 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."

riversident@Acts:18:7 @ 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.

riversident@Acts:18:8 @ Crispus, the synagogue Director, believed in the Lord with all his household, and many of the Corinthians when they heard believed and were baptized.

riversident@Acts:18:9 @ The Lord spoke in the night by a vision to Paul,

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riversident@Acts:18:11 @ So he stayed a year and six months, teaching among them the message of God.

riversident@Acts:18:12 @ While Gallio was Proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one mind made an attack on Paul and brought him before the court,

riversident@Acts:18:13 @ saying, "This man is inducing men to worship God in a way contrary to law."

riversident@Acts:18:14 @ 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.

riversident@Acts:18:15 @ 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,"

riversident@Acts:18:16 @ and he drove them from before the judge's seat.

riversident@Acts:18:17 @ 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.

riversident@Acts:18:18 @ 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.