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The Acts of the Apostles, Chapter 18
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After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to
Corinth;
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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.
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And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and
wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
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And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the
Jews and the Greeks.
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And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was
pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was
Christ.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not
afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace:
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For I am with thee,
and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in
this city.
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And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word
of God among them.
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And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made
insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the
judgment seat,
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Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God
contrary to the law.
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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:
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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.
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And he drave them from the judgment seat.
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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.
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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.
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And he came to Ephesus, and left them there: but he himself
entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.
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When they desired him to tarry longer time with them, he
consented not;
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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.
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And when he had landed at Caesarea, and gone up, and saluted the
church, he went down to Antioch.
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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.
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And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent
man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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For he
mightily convinced the Jews, and that publickly, shewing by the
scriptures that Jesus was Christ.
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