[18:1] After this Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.
[18:2] And he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. And he went to see them,
[18:3] and because he was of the same trade he stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade.
[18:4] And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and tried to persuade Jews and Greeks.
[18:5] When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with the word, testifying to the Jews that the Christ was Jesus.
[18:6] And when they opposed and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”
[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.
[18:8] Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, together with his entire household. And many of the Corinthians hearing Paul believed and were baptized.
[18:9] And the Lord said to Paul one night in a vision, “Do not be afraid, but go on speaking and do not be silent,
[18:10] for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many in this city who are my people.”
[18:11] And he stayed a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
[18:12] But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a united attack on Paul and brought him before the tribunal,
[18:13] saying, “This man is persuading people to worship God contrary to the law.”
[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, O Jews, I would have reason to accept your complaint.
[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.”
[18:16] And he drove them from the tribunal.
[18:17] And they all seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the tribunal. But Gallio paid no attention to any of this.