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1 AFTER this Paul left Athens and came to Corinth.
2 There he found a Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus but recently come from Italy with Priscilla his wife, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul visited these people,
3 and because he was of the same trade stayed with them and they worked together; for by trade they were tent-makers.
4 But in the synagogue every Sabbath he reasoned and endeavored to persuade both Jews and Greeks.
5 When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was absorbed by the message, bearing witness to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.
6 When they resisted and spoke profane words, he rent his garments and said to them, "Your blood is on your own heads. I am clear, and from now on I am going to the Gentiles."
7 So he changed over from there and came into the house of a man named Titus Justus, who reverenced God. His house was next to the synagogue.
8 Crispus, the synagogue Director, believed in the Lord with all his household, and many of the Corinthians when they heard believed and were baptized.
9 The Lord spoke in the night by a vision to Paul, "Do not fear, but speak and be not silent,
10 for I am with you and no one shall attack and harm you, for I have many people in this city."
11 So he stayed a year and six months, teaching among them the message of God.
12 While Gallio was Proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one mind made an attack on Paul and brought him before the court,