1. After these things, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.
2. There he found a Jewish man named Aquila—a native of Pontus having recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all Jewish people to leave Rome. Paul went to see them;
3. and because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them and began working, for by trade they were tent-makers.
4. And he was debating every Shabbat in the synagogue, trying to persuade both Jewish and Greek people.
5. Now when Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul became occupied with the message, urgently testifying to the Jewish people that Yeshua is the Messiah.
6. But when they resisted and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said, “Your blood be upon your own heads—I am clean! From now on, I will go to the Gentiles.”
7. After leaving there, Paul went into the house of a man named Titius Justus, a God-fearer whose house was next door to the synagogue.
8. Crispus, the synagogue leader, put his faith in the Lord, along with his whole household. And many of the Corinthians, upon hearing, were believing and being immersed.
9. Now the Lord said to Paul through a vision in the night, “Do not be afraid, but speak and do not be silent!
10. For I am with you and no one shall attack you to harm you—many people in this city are for Me.”
11. So he stayed a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
12. But while Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jewish leaders made a united attack against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,