In Corinth
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📚✭After these things Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. 2 📚✭And there he found a Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus and lately come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius✭ had commanded all Jews to leave Rome. And he went to them, 3 📚✭and because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them and worked. For by occupation they were tent makers. 4 📚And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and persuaded both Jews and Greeks. 5 📚✭And when Silas and Timothy had come down from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit and testified to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ. 6 📚✭But when they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothes and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads. I am pure from guilt. From now on I will go to the Gentiles”.
7 📚And he left there and entered the house of a certain man named Justus, who was a worshipper of God. His house was right next to the synagogue. 8 📚✭And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord together with all his household, and many of the Corinthians, hearing the message, believed and were baptized.
9 📚Then the Lord spoke to Paul at night through a vision✭: “Do not be afraid, but speak, and do not keep silent. 10 📚For I am with you, and no man will attack you to do you harm, for I have many people in this city”. 11 📚✭And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
12 📚✭And when Gallio was the proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him to the place of judgment, 13 📚saying, “This fellow persuades men to worship God in a manner contrary to the Law”.
14 📚And now when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of wrongdoing or wicked reckless deeds, O Jews, there would be reason for me to bear with you. 15 📚✭But if it is a question of words and names and your law, you see to it, for I will not be a judge of such matters”. 16 📚And he ejected them from the place of judgment. 17 📚Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the place of judgment. And Gallio cared for none of those things.
In Ephesus
18 📚After this Paul remained there for a good while, and then took leave of the brethren and sailed for Syria, along with Priscilla and Aquila, having had his hair cut off in Cenchrea because he had taken a vow✭. 19 📚✭And he came to Ephesus, and left them there, but he himself entered the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews. 20 📚When they asked him to stay a longer time with them, he did not consent, 21 📚but took leave of them, saying, “I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem. But I will return to you, God willing”. And he sailed from Ephesus. 22 📚And after he had landed at Caesarea and gone up and greeted the church, he went down to Antioch.
Paul’s third missionary journey
23 📚And after he had spent some time there, he left and went over the region of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples. 24 📚✭And a certain Jew named Apollos, born in Alexandria, an eloquent man and powerful in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus.
25 📚This man was instructed in the way of the Lord and was fervent in spirit, so he spoke and taught accurately the things of the Lord, but knew only the baptism of John✭. 26 📚✭And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Aquila and Priscilla heard him, they took him and expounded to him the way of God more precisely.