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Acts

1 Af­ter these things Paul de­part­ed from Athens, and came to Corinth; 2 And found a cer­tain Jew named Aquila, born in Pon­tus, late­ly come from Italy, with his wife Priscil­la; (be­cause that Claudius had com­mand­ed all Jews to de­part from Rome: ) and came unto them. 3 And be­cause he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their oc­cu­pa­tion they were tent­mak­ers. 4 And he rea­soned in the syn­a­gogue ev­ery sab­bath, and per­suad­ed the Jews and the Greeks. 5 And when Silas and Tim­o­theus were come from Mace­do­nia, Paul was pressed in the spir­it, and tes­ti­fied to the Jews that Je­sus was Christ. 6 And when they op­posed them­selves, and blas­phemed, he shook his rai­ment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from hence­forth I will go unto the Gen­tiles. 7 And he de­part­ed thence, and en­tered into a cer­tain man's house, named Jus­tus, one that wor­shipped God, whose house joined hard to the syn­a­gogue. 8 And Cris­pus, the chief ruler of the syn­a­gogue, be­lieved on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthi­ans hear­ing be­lieved, and were bap­tized. 9 Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vi­sion, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace: 10 For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much peo­ple in this city. 11 And he con­tin­ued there a year and six months, teach­ing the word of God among them. 12 And when Gal­lio was the deputy of Acha­ia, the Jews made in­sur­rec­tion with one ac­cord against Paul, and brought him to the judg­ment seat, 13 Say­ing, This fellow per­suadeth men to wor­ship God con­trary to the law. 14 And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gal­lio said unto the Jews, If it were a mat­ter of wrong or wicked lewd­ness, O ye Jews, rea­son would that I should bear with you: 15 But if it be a ques­tion of words and names, and of your law, look ye ­to it; for I will be no judge of such matters. 16 And he drave them from the judg­ment seat. 17 Then all the Greeks took Sos­thenes, the chief ruler of the syn­a­gogue, and beat him be­fore the judg­ment seat. And Gal­lio cared for none of those things. 18 And Paul after this tar­ried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syr­ia, and with him Priscil­la and Aquila; hav­ing shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow. 19 And he came to Eph­esus, and left them there: but he him­self en­tered into the syn­a­gogue, and rea­soned with the Jews. 20 When they de­sired him to tar­ry longer time with them, he con­sent­ed not; 21 But bade them farewell, say­ing, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will re­turn again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Eph­esus. 22 And when he had land­ed at Cae­sarea, and gone up, and salut­ed the church, he went down to An­ti­och. 23 And af­ter he had spent some time there, he de­part­ed, and went over all the coun­try of Gala­tia and Phry­gia in or­der, strength­en­ing all the dis­ci­ples. 24 And a cer­tain Jew named Apol­los, born at Alexan­dria, an elo­quent man, and mighty in the scrip­tures, came to Eph­esus. 25 This man was in­struct­ed in the way of the Lord; and be­ing fer­vent in the spir­it, he spake and taught dili­gent­ly the things of the Lord, know­ing only the bap­tism of John. 26 And he be­gan to speak bold­ly in the syn­a­gogue: whom when Aquila and Priscil­la had heard, they took him unto them, and ex­pound­ed unto him the way of God more per­fect­ly. 27 And when he was dis­posed to pass into Acha­ia, the brethren wrote, ex­hort­ing the dis­ci­ples to re­ceive him: who, when he was come, helped them much which had be­lieved through grace: 28 For he might­i­ly con­vinced the Jews, and that pub­lick­ly, shew­ing by the scrip­tures that Je­sus was Christ.