18:1 After this 1 Paul 2 departed from 3 Athens 4 and went to Corinth. 5 18:2 There he 6 found 7 a Jew named Aquila, 8 a native of Pontus, 9 who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius 10 had ordered all the Jews to depart from 11 Rome. 12 Paul approached 13 them, 18:3 and because he worked at the same trade, he stayed with them and worked with them 14 (for they were tentmakers 15 by trade). 16 18:4 He addressed 17 both Jews and Greeks in the synagogue 18 every Sabbath, attempting to persuade 19 them.
18:5 Now when Silas and Timothy arrived 20 from Macedonia, 21 Paul became wholly absorbed with proclaiming 22 the word, testifying 23 to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ. 24 18:6 When they opposed him 25 and reviled him, 26 he protested by shaking out his clothes 27 and said to them, “Your blood 28 be on your own heads! I am guiltless! 29 From now on I will go to the Gentiles!” 18:7 Then Paul 30 left 31 the synagogue 32 and went to the house of a person named Titius Justus, a Gentile who worshiped God, 33 whose house was next door to the synagogue. 18:8 Crispus, the president of the synagogue, 34 believed in the Lord together with his entire household, and many of the Corinthians who heard about it 35 believed and were baptized. 18:9 The Lord said to Paul by a vision 36 in the night, 37 “Do not be afraid, 38 but speak and do not be silent, 18:10 because I am with you, and no one will assault 39 you to harm 40 you, because I have many people in this city.” 18:11 So he stayed there 41 a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them. 42
18:12 Now while Gallio 43 was proconsul 44 of Achaia, 45 the Jews attacked Paul together 46 and brought him before the judgment seat, 47 18:13 saying, “This man is persuading 48 people to worship God in a way contrary to 49 the law!” 18:14 But just as Paul was about to speak, 50 Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of some crime or serious piece of villainy, 51 I would have been justified in accepting the complaint 52 of you Jews, 53 18:15 but since it concerns points of disagreement 54 about words and names and your own law, settle 55 it yourselves. I will not be 56 a judge of these things!” 18:16 Then he had them forced away 57 from the judgment seat. 58 18:17 So they all seized Sosthenes, the president of the synagogue, 59 and began to beat 60 him in front of the judgment seat. 61 Yet none of these things were of any concern 62 to Gallio.
18:18 Paul, after staying 63 many more days in Corinth, 64 said farewell to 65 the brothers and sailed away to Syria accompanied by 66 Priscilla and Aquila. 67 He 68 had his hair cut off 69 at Cenchrea 70 because he had made a vow. 71