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<A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>and he was reasoning in the synagogue every Sabbath, persuading both Jews and Greeks.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And when both Silas and Timotheus came down from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the Spirit, testifying fully to the Jews Jesus the Christ; <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>and on their resisting and slandering, having shaken [his] garments, he said to them, “Your blood [is] on your head—I am clean; from now on I will go on to the nations.” <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And having departed from there, he went to the house of a certain one, by name Justus, a worshiper of God, whose house was adjoining the synagogue, <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>and Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue believed in the LORD with all his house, and many of the Corinthians hearing were believing, and they were being immersed. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And the LORD said through a vision in the night to Paul, “Do not be afraid, but be speaking and you may not be silent; <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>because I am with you, and no one will set on you to do evil [to] you, because I have many people in this city”; <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and he continued a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And Gallio being proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a rush with one accord on Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat, <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>saying, “This one persuades men to worship God against the Law”; <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>and Paul being about to open [his] mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If, indeed, then, it was anything unrighteous, or an act of wicked recklessness, O Jews, according to reason I had borne with you, <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>but if it is a question concerning words and names, and of your law, look [to it] yourselves, for I do not intend to be a judge of these things,” <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>and he drives them from the judgment seat; <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>and all the Greeks having taken Sosthenes, the chief man of the synagogue, were beating [him] before the judgment seat, and Gallio was not even caring for these things.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And Paul having remained yet a good many days, having taken leave of the brothers, was sailing to Syria—and with him [are] Priscilla and Aquilas—having shorn [his] head in Cenchera, for he had a vow; <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>and he came down to Ephesus, and left them there, and he himself having entered into the synagogue reasoned with the Jews: <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>and they having requested [him] to remain a longer time with them, he did not consent, <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>but took leave of them, saying, “It is necessary for me by all means to keep the coming celebration at Jerusalem, and again I will return to you—God willing.” And he sailed from Ephesus,<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>and having come down to Caesarea, having gone up, and having greeted the assembly, he went down to Antioch.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And having stayed some time, he went forth, going successively through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And a certain Jew, Apollos by name, an Alexandrian by birth, a man of eloquence, being mighty in the Writings, came to Ephesus; <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>this one was instructed in the way of the LORD, and being fervent in the Spirit, was speaking and teaching exactly the things about the LORD, knowing only the immersion of John; <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>this one also began to speak boldly in the synagogue, and Aquilas and Priscilla having heard of him, took him to [them], and more exactly set forth to him The Way of God, <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>and he resolving to go through into Achaia, the brothers wrote to the disciples, having exhorted them to receive him, who having come, helped them much who have believed through grace, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/18-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>for he was powerfully refuting the Jews publicly, showing through the Writings Jesus to be the Christ.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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