Acts 18:1-12

WPNT(i) 1 Now after these things Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. 2 And encountering a certain Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla (because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to depart from Rome), he joined them; 3 and because he practiced the same trade, he stayed on with them and worked (their trade was tentmaker). 4 Every Sabbath in the synagogue he would reason with both Jews and Greeks, trying to persuade them. 5 But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was constrained by the Spirit, solemnly insisting to the Jews: Jesus is the Christ. 6 But since they kept contradicting and blaspheming, he shook his clothes and said to them: “Your blood be upon your own heads! I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.” 7 So he moved from there into the house of a man named Justus, a worshiper of God, whose house was next door to the synagogue. 8 Then Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his household; and as they were hearing, many of the Corinthians were believing and being baptized. 9 Now the Lord said to Paul by a vision at night: “Do not be afraid; rather speak and do not keep silent, 10 because I am with you and no one will attack you to harm you, because I have many people in this city.” 11 So he stayed on for a year and six months, teaching the Word of God among them. 12 Now while Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him to the judgment seat,