| 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 . |
