Acts 18:1-11

Moffatt(i) 1 After this Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. 2 There he came across a Jew called Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently arrived from Italy with his wife Priscilla, as Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul accosted them, 3 and as he belonged to the same trade he stayed with them and they all worked together. (They were workers in leather by trade.) 4 Every sabbath he argued in the synagogue, persuading both Jews and Greeks. 5 By the time Silas and Timotheus came south from Macedonia, Paul was engrossed in this preaching of the word, arguing to the Jews that the messiah was Jesus. 6 But as they opposed and abused him, he shook out his garments in protest, saying, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am not responsible! After this I will go to the Gentiles." 7 Then he removed to the house of a devout proselyte called Titus Justus, which adjoined the synagogue. 8 But Crispus the president of the synagogue believed in the Lord, as did all his household, and many of the Corinthians listened, believed, and were baptized. 9 And the Lord said to Paul in a vision by night, "Have no fear, speak on and never stop, 10 for I am with you, and no one shall attack and injure you; I have many people in this city." 11 So he settled there for a year and six months, teaching them the word of God.