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          DASV: Acts 18    

1 After these things Paul left Athens and came to Corinth.
2 There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus. He
and his wife Priscilla had recently come from Italy, because
Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul went
to visit them
3 and, because he had the same trade, he stayed and worked
with them, for they were tentmakers by trade.
4 Every Sabbath Paul would reason in the synagogue, trying to
persuade Jews and Greeks.
5 But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul
totally focused on proclaiming the word, testifying to the
Jews that Jesus was the Messiah.
6 When they opposed and berated him, he shook out his clothes
and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads; I am
innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."

7 So he left there, and went into the house of a man named
Titus Justus, one who worshipped God, whose house was next
door to the synagogue.
8 Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, believed in the Lord
with his whole household. Many of the Corinthians who
heard believed and were baptized.
9 In a night vision the Lord said to Paul, "Do not be afraid,
but speak out and do not be silent;
10 for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you,
for I have many people in this city."
11 So he stayed there a year and six months, teaching the
word of God among them.

12 But while Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a
concerted attack against Paul and brought him before the
judgment seat,
13 saying, "This man persuades people to worship God contrary
to the law."
14 But just when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said
to the Jews, "If it were a matter of a wrongdoing or serious
crime, Jews, I would be justified in hearing your complaint,
15 but since it is just an issue over questions about words
and names and your own law, take care of it yourselves.
I am unwilling to be a judge of these types of matters."
16 So he drove them away from the judgment seat.
17 Then they all seized Sosthenes, the leader of the synagogue,
and beat him right in front of the judgment seat. But
Gallio paid no attention to any of these things.

18 Paul, having stayed for sometime longer, said good-bye
and left the brothers, and sailed for Syria, along with
Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his head in Cenchrea
because of the vow he had made.
19 They came to Ephesus, and he left them there, but he
himself entered the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.
20 When they asked him to stay longer, he declined.
21 But as he was saying farewell, he said, "I will come
back to you, if God wills." Then he set sail from Ephesus.

22 When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted
the Jerusalem church, then went down to Antioch.
23 Having spent some time there, he left, and traveled
through the region of Galatia, and Phrygia,
strengthening all the disciples.

24 Now a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came
to Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, and well-versed in
the Scriptures.
25 He had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and spoke
with enthusiasm and taught accurately the things concerning
Jesus, but he knew only about the baptism of John.
26 He began to speak 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.
27 When Apollos had decided to pass over into Achaia,
the brothers encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples
to receive him. When he arrived there he greatly aided
those who had believed by grace,
28 for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public,
demonstrating by means of the Scriptures that Jesus
was the Messiah.

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