Acts 18

1After these things Paul departed from Athens and came to Corinth.Cross-references: Acts 17:15 · Acts 17:32 · Acts 19:1 · 1Cor 1:2 · 2Cor 1:1 · 2Cor 1:23 · +1 moreExamined: The Historical Jesus →

2He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,Cross-references: Acts 2:9 · Acts 11:28 · Acts 18:18 · Acts 18:26 · Rom 16:3 · 1Cor 16:19 · +2 moreExamined: The Historical Jesus →

3and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.Cross-references: Acts 20:34 · 1Cor 4:12 · 1Cor 9:6 · 2Cor 11:7 · 2Cor 11:9 · 2Cor 12:13 · +2 more

4He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and persuaded Jews and Greeks.Cross-references: Gen 9:27 · 2Chr 32:11 · Luke 4:16 · Luke 16:31 · Acts 13:14 · Acts 17:1 · +8 more

5When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.Cross-references: Job 32:18 · Jer 6:11 · Jer 20:9 · Ezek 3:14 · Dan 9:25 · Mic 3:8 · +20 more

6When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!”Cross-references: Lev 20:9 · Lev 20:11 · 2Sam 1:16 · Neh 5:13 · Ezek 3:18 · Ezek 18:13 · +28 more

7He departed there and went into the house of a certain man named Justus, one who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.Cross-references: Acts 10:2 · Acts 10:22 · Acts 13:42 · Acts 16:14 · Acts 17:4 · Col 4:11

8Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.Cross-references: Gen 17:27 · Gen 18:19 · Josh 24:15 · Matt 28:19 · Mark 5:22 · Mark 5:35 · +12 more

9The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, “Don’t be afraid, but speak and don’t be silent;Cross-references: Isa 58:1 · Jer 1:17 · Ezek 2:6 · Ezek 3:9 · Jonah 3:2 · Mic 3:8 · +7 more

10for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city.”Cross-references: Ex 4:12 · Josh 1:5 · Josh 1:9 · Judg 2:18 · Isa 8:10 · Isa 41:10 · +18 more

11He lived there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.Cross-references: Acts 14:3 · Acts 19:10 · Acts 20:31

12But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,Cross-references: Matt 27:19 · John 19:13 · Acts 13:7 · Acts 13:12 · Acts 13:50 · Acts 14:2 · +15 more

13saying, “This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.”Cross-references: Acts 6:13 · Acts 18:4 · Acts 18:15 · Acts 21:28 · Acts 24:5 · Acts 25:8

14But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked crime, you Jews, it would be reasonable that I should bear with you;Cross-references: Mark 9:19 · Luke 21:12 · Acts 13:18 · Acts 21:39 · Acts 23:27 · Acts 25:11 · +8 more

15but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don’t want to be a judge of these matters.”Cross-references: Matt 27:4 · Matt 27:24 · John 18:31 · Acts 23:29 · Acts 24:6 · Acts 25:11 · +6 more

16So he drove them from the judgment seat.Cross-references: Ps 76:10 · Rom 13:3 · Rev 12:16

17Then all the Greeks seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. Gallio didn’t care about any of these things.Cross-references: Amos 6:6 · Acts 17:32 · 1Cor 1:1 · 1Cor 1:23

18Paul, having stayed after this many more days, took his leave of the brothers, and sailed from there for Syria, together with Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow.Cross-references: Num 6:2 · Num 6:5 · Num 6:18 · Acts 15:23 · Acts 15:41 · Acts 18:2 · +6 more

19He came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself entered into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.Cross-references: Acts 17:2 · Acts 18:4 · Acts 18:21 · Acts 18:24 · Acts 19:1 · Acts 19:17 · +10 more

20When they asked him to stay with them a longer time, he declined;Cross-references: Mark 1:37 · Acts 20:16 · Acts 21:13 · 1Cor 16:12

21but taking his leave of them, he said, “I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you if God wills.” Then he set sail from Ephesus.Cross-references: Deut 16:1 · Matt 26:39 · Luke 9:61 · Acts 15:29 · Acts 19:21 · Acts 20:16 · +10 more

22When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the assembly, and went down to Antioch.Cross-references: Acts 8:40 · Acts 10:1 · Acts 10:24 · Acts 11:11 · Acts 11:19 · Acts 13:1 · +10 more

23Having spent some time there, he departed and went through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the disciples.Cross-references: Deut 3:28 · Ezra 1:6 · Isa 35:3 · Dan 11:1 · Luke 22:32 · Luke 22:43 · +12 more

24Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures.Cross-references: Ex 4:10 · Ezra 7:6 · Ezra 7:12 · Isa 3:3 · Matt 13:52 · Luke 24:19 · +12 more

25This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.Cross-references: Gen 18:19 · Judg 2:22 · 1Sam 12:23 · Ps 25:8 · Ps 119:1 · Isa 40:3 · +18 more

26He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside, and explained to him the way of God more accurately.Cross-references: Prov 1:5 · Prov 9:9 · Prov 22:17 · Prov 25:12 · Isa 58:1 · Matt 18:3 · +15 more

27When he had determined to pass over into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him; and wrote to the disciples to receive him. When he had come, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace;Cross-references: John 1:12 · Acts 9:27 · Acts 18:12 · Acts 18:18 · Acts 19:1 · Rom 1:5 · +17 more

28for he powerfully refuted the Jews, publicly showing by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.Cross-references: Luke 24:27 · Luke 24:44 · John 5:39 · Acts 9:22 · Acts 17:3 · Acts 18:5 · +4 more