Acts 18:1–9
1After these things Paul departed from Athens and came to Corinth.↗
2He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,↗
3and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.↗
4He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and persuaded Jews and Greeks.↗
5When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.↗
6When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!”↗
7He departed there and went into the house of a certain man named Justus, one who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.↗
8Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.↗
9The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision,“Don’t be afraid, but speak and don’t be silent;↗
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