3. and because he worked at the same trade, he stayed with them and worked with them (for they were tentmakers by trade).
4. He addressed both Jews and Greeks in the synagogue every Sabbath, attempting to persuade them.
5. Now when Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul became wholly absorbed with proclaiming the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.
6. When they opposed him and reviled him, he protested by shaking out his clothes and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am guiltless! From now on I will go to the Gentiles!”
7. Then Paul left the synagogue and went to the house of a person named Titius Justus, a Gentile who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.
8. Crispus, the president of the synagogue, believed in the Lord together with his entire household, and many of the Corinthians who heard about it believed and were baptized.
9. The Lord said to Paul by a vision in the night, “Do not be afraid, but speak and do not be silent,
10. because I am with you, and no one will assault you to harm you, because I have many people in this city.”