Acts 18
Paul at
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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 Timothy 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 Gal'li-o was the deputy of
Achai'a, 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, Gal'li-o 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 Sos'thenes, the
chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the
judgment seat. And Gal'li-o 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 Cen'chre-ae: for he had a
vow. Num. 6.18
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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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Paul Returns to
Antioch and Begins the Third Missionary Journey |
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And when he had landed at Caesare'a,
and gone up, and saluted the church, he went down to
An'ti-och.
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And after he had spent some time there, he departed, and went over all the country of
Galatia and Phryg'i-a in order, strengthening all the
disciples.
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Apollos Preaches at
Ephesus |
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And a certain Jew named Apol'los, 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
Achai'a, 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 publicly, showing by the Scriptures that Jesus was
Christ.
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