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He came to them, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-3.htm" target="_top"><b>3</b></a></span>and because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them and they were working, for by trade they were tent-makers. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>And he was reasoning in the synagogue every Sabbath and trying to persuade Jews and Greeks. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul <i>began</i> devoting himself completely to the word, solemnly testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>But when they resisted and blasphemed, he shook out his garments and said to them, Your blood <i>be</i> on your own heads! I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>Then he left there and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God, whose house was next to the synagogue. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his household, and many of the Corinthians when they heard were believing and being baptized. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>And the Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, Do not be afraid <i>any longer,</i> but go on speaking and do not be silent; <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>for I am with you, and no man will attack you in order to harm you, for I have many people in this city. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>And he settled <i>there</i> a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>But while Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>saying, This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or of vicious crime, O Jews, it would be reasonable for me to put up with you; <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>but if there are questions about words and names and your own law, look after it yourselves; I am unwilling to be a judge of these matters. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>And he drove them away from the judgment seat. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>And they all took hold of Sosthenes, the leader of the synagogue, and <i>began</i> beating him in front of the judgment seat. But Gallio was not concerned about any of these things. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>Paul, having remained many days longer, took leave of the brethren and put out to sea for Syria, and with him were Priscilla and Aquila. In Cenchrea he had his hair cut, for he was keeping a vow. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>They came to Ephesus, and he left them there. Now he himself entered the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>When they asked him to stay for a longer time, he did not consent, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>but taking leave of them and saying, I will return to you again if God wills, he set sail from Ephesus. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the church, and went down to Antioch. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Third Missionary Journey</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>And having spent some time <i>there,</i> he left and passed successively through the Galatian region and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>Now a Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus; and he was mighty in the Scriptures. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he was speaking and teaching accurately the things concerning Jesus, being acquainted only with the baptism of John; <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>and he began to speak out boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>And when he wanted to go across to Achaia, the brethren encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him; and when he had arrived, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, demonstrating by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/acts/18.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />After these things he departed from Athens, and came to Corinth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/acts/18.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />AFTER these things, departing from Athens, he came to Corinth. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/acts/18.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />And after these things, having left Athens, he came to Corinth;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/acts/18.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />After these things he departed from Athens, and came to Corinth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/acts/18.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />After these things, Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/acts/18.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />After this he left Athens and came to Corinth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/acts/18.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/acts/18.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And after these things, Paul having departed out of Athens, came to Corinth,<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_the_acts/constrained_by_the_word.htm"> 'Constrained by the Word'</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified.'--ACTS xviii. 5. The Revised Version, in concurrence with most recent authorities, reads, instead of 'pressed in the spirit,' 'constrained by the word.' One of these alterations depends on a diversity of reading, the other on a difference of translation. The one introduces a significant difference of meaning; the other is rather a change of expression. The word rendered here 'pressed,' and by the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_the_acts/constrained_by_the_word.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_the_acts/paul_at_corinth.htm">Paul at Corinth</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'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 tent-makers. 4. And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks. 5. And when Silas and Timotheus <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_the_acts/paul_at_corinth.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_the_acts/gallio.htm">Gallio</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'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.'--ACTS xviii. 14, 15. There is something very touching in the immortality of fame which comes to the men who for a moment pass across the Gospel story, like shooting stars kindled for an instant as they <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_the_acts/gallio.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/stalker/the_trial_and_death_of_jesus_christ/chapter_iv_the_civil_trial.htm">The Civil Trial</a><br></span><span class="snippet">In the chapter before last we saw the Sanhedrim pass a death sentence on Jesus. Gladly would they have carried it out in the Jewish fashion--by stoning. But, as was then explained, it was not in their power: their Roman masters, while conceding to the native courts the power of trying and punishing minor offences, reserved to themselves the prerogative of life and death; and a case in which a capital sentence had been passed in a Jewish court had to go before the representative of Rome in the country, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/stalker/the_trial_and_death_of_jesus_christ/chapter_iv_the_civil_trial.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">James Stalker—</span><span class="citation2">The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/sell/bible_studies_in_the_life_of_paul/study_viii_the_old_faiths.htm">The Old Faiths and the New</a><br></span><span class="snippet">SECOND GROUP OF EPISTLES GALATIANS. FIRST AND SECOND CORINTHIANS. ROMANS. PROBLEMS OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY The new faith in Christ made large claims for itself. It marked an advance upon Judaism and maintained that in Christ was fulfilled all the promises made by the prophets of the coming of the Jewish Messiah. It radically antagonized the heathen religions. It had a double task to win men out of Judaism and heathenism. Only by a careful study of these great doctrinal Epistles, and the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/sell/bible_studies_in_the_life_of_paul/study_viii_the_old_faiths.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Henry T. Sell—</span><span class="citation2">Bible Studies in the Life of Paul</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/sell/bible_studies_in_the_life_of_paul/study_v_third_missionary_journey.htm">Third Missionary Journey</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Scripture, Acts 18:23-21:17 [Illustration: Outline map illustrating the third missionary journey of Paul and the voyage to Italy.] <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/sell/bible_studies_in_the_life_of_paul/study_v_third_missionary_journey.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Henry T. Sell—</span><span class="citation2">Bible Studies in the Life of Paul</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/of_the_work_of_monks_/section_22_there_also_is.htm">There Also is Said at what Work the Apostle Wrought. ...</a><br></span><span class="snippet">22. There also is said at what work the Apostle wrought. "After these things," it says, "he departed from Athens and came to Corinth; and having found a certain Jew, by name Aquila, of Pontus by birth, lately come from Italy, and Priscilla his wife, because that Claudius had ordered all Jews to depart from Rome, he came unto them, and because he was of the same craft he abode with them, doing work: for they were tent-makers." [2549] This if they shall essay to interpret allegorically, they show what <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/of_the_work_of_monks_/section_22_there_also_is.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">St. Augustine—</span><span class="citation2">Of the Work of Monks. </span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/sketches_of_jewish_social_life/chapter_6_jewish_homes.htm">Jewish Homes</a><br></span><span class="snippet">It may be safely asserted, that the grand distinction, which divided all mankind into Jews and Gentiles, was not only religious, but also social. However near the cities of the heathen to those of Israel, however frequent and close the intercourse between the two parties, no one could have entered a Jewish town or village without feeling, so to speak, in quite another world. The aspect of the streets, the building and arrangement of the houses, the municipal and religious rule, the manners and customs <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/edersheim/sketches_of_jewish_social_life/chapter_6_jewish_homes.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alfred Edersheim—</span><span class="citation2">Sketches of Jewish Social Life</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_acts_of_the_apostles/lesson_24_corinth.htm">Corinth</a><br></span><span class="snippet">During the first century of the Christian Era, Corinth was one of the leading cities, not only of Greece, but of the world. Greeks, Jews, and Romans, with travelers from every land, thronged its streets, eagerly intent on business and pleasure. A great commercial center, situated within easy access of all parts of the Roman Empire, it was an important place in which to establish memorials for God and His truth. Among the Jews who had taken up their residence in Corinth were Aquila and Priscilla, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_acts_of_the_apostles/lesson_24_corinth.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ellen Gould White—</span><span class="citation2">The Acts of the Apostles</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_acts_of_the_apostles/lesson_26_apollos_at_corinth.htm">Apollos at Corinth</a><br></span><span class="snippet">After leaving Corinth, Paul's next scene of labor was Ephesus. He was on his way to Jerusalem to attend an approaching festival, and his stay at Ephesus was necessarily brief. He reasoned with the Jews in the synagogue, and so favorable was the impression made upon them that they entreated him to continue his labors among them. His plan to visit Jerusalem prevented him from tarrying then, but he promised to return to them, "if God will." Aquila and Priscilla had accompanied him to Ephesus, and he <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/white/the_acts_of_the_apostles/lesson_26_apollos_at_corinth.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Ellen Gould White—</span><span class="citation2">The Acts of the Apostles</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcgarvey/the_four-fold_gospel/xiv_flight_into_egypt_and.htm">Flight into Egypt and Slaughter of the Bethlehem Children. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">(Bethlehem and Road Thence to Egypt, b.c. 4.) ^A Matt. II. 13-18. ^a 13 Now when they were departed [The text favors the idea that the arrival and departure of the magi and the departure of Joseph for Egypt, all occurred in one night. If so, the people of Bethlehem knew nothing of these matters], behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise [this command calls for immediate departure] and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt [This land was ever the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/mcgarvey/the_four-fold_gospel/xiv_flight_into_egypt_and.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">J. W. 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