9. Then the Lord said to Paul in a night vision, “Don’t be afraid, but keep on speaking and don’t be silent.
10. For I am with you, and no one will lay a hand on you to hurt you, because I have many people in this city.”
11. And he stayed there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
12. While Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a united attack against Paul and brought him to the judge’s bench.
13. “This man,” they said, “persuades people to worship God contrary to the law! ”
14. As Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of a crime or of moral evil, it would be reasonable for me to put up with you Jews.
15. But if these are questions about words, names, and your own law, see to it yourselves. I don’t want to be a judge of such things.”
16. So he drove them from the judge’s bench.
17. Then they all seized Sosthenes, the leader of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the judge’s bench. But none of these things concerned Gallio.
18. So Paul, having stayed on for many days, said good-bye to the brothers and sailed away to Syria. Priscilla and Aquila were with him. He shaved his head at Cenchreae because he had taken a vow.
19. When they reached Ephesus he left them there, but he himself entered the synagogue and engaged in discussion with the Jews.
20. And though they asked him to stay for a longer time, he declined,
21. but he said good-bye and stated, “I’ll come back to you again, if God wills.” Then he set sail from Ephesus.
22. On landing at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the church and went down to Antioch.
23. And after spending some time there, he set out, traveling through one place after another in the Galatian territory and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.
24. A Jew named Apollos, a native Alexandrian, an eloquent man who was powerful in the use of the Scriptures, arrived in Ephesus.
25. This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught the things about Jesus accurately, although he knew only John’s baptism.