11. And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
12. When Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him to the judgment seat,
13. saying, “This fellow persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.”
14. And when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of wrongdoing or wicked crimes, O Jews, there would be reason why I should bear with you.
15. But if it is a question of words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves; for I do not want to be a judge of such matters.”
16. And he drove them from the judgment seat.
17. Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. But Gallio took no notice of these things.