rsv Acts:18:1-17
rsv@Acts:18:1 @ After this he left Athens and went to Corinth.
rsv@Acts:18:2 @ And he found a Jew named Aq'uila, a native of Pontus, lately come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. And he went to see them;
rsv@Acts:18:3 @ and because he was of the same trade he stayed with them, and they worked, for by trade they were tentmakers.
rsv@Acts:18:4 @ And he argued in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks.
rsv@Acts:18:5 @ When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedo'nia, Paul was occupied with preaching, testifying to the Jews that the Christ was Jesus.
rsv@Acts:18:6 @ And when they opposed and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said to them, "Your blood be upon your heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."
rsv@Acts:18:7 @ And he left there and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God; his house was next door to the synagogue.
rsv@Acts:18:8 @ Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, together with all his household; and many of the Corinthians hearing Paul believed and were baptized.
rsv@Acts:18:9 @ And the Lord said to Paul one night in a vision, "Do not be afraid, but speak and do not be silent;
rsv@Acts:18:10 @ for I am with you, and no man shall attack you to harm you; for I have many people in this city."
rsv@Acts:18:11 @ And he stayed a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
rsv@Acts:18:12 @ But when Gallio was proconsul of Acha'ia, the Jews made a united attack upon Paul and brought him before the tribunal,
rsv@Acts:18:13 @ saying, "This man is persuading men to worship God contrary to the law."
rsv@Acts:18:14 @ But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If it were a matter of wrongdoing or vicious crime, I should have reason to bear with you, O Jews;
rsv@Acts:18:15 @ but since it is a matter of questions about words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves; I refuse to be a judge of these things."
rsv@Acts:18:16 @ And he drove them from the tribunal.
rsv@Acts:18:17 @ And they all seized Sos'thenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the tribunal. But Gallio paid no attention to this.
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