3. and, because he practiced the same trade, stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade.
4. Every sabbath, he entered into discussions in the synagogue, attempting to convince both Jews and Greeks.
5. When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul began to occupy himself totally with preaching the word, testifying to the Jews that the Messiah was Jesus.
6. When they opposed him and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said to them, “Your blood be on your heads! I am clear of responsibility. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”
7. So he left there and went to a house belonging to a man named Titus Justus, a worshiper of God; his house was next to a synagogue.
8. Crispus, the synagogue official, came to believe in the Lord along with his entire household, and many of the Corinthians who heard believed and were baptized.
9. One night in a vision the Lord said to Paul, “Do not be afraid. Go on speaking, and do not be silent,
10. for I am with you. No one will attack and harm you, for I have many people in this city.”
11. He settled there for a year and a half and taught the word of God among them.
12. But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews rose up together against Paul and brought him to the tribunal,
13. saying, “This man is inducing people to worship God contrary to the law.”
14. When Paul was about to reply, Gallio spoke to the Jews, “If it were a matter of some crime or malicious fraud, I should with reason hear the complaint of you Jews;