1. After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth.
2. He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,
3. and because he practised the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.
4. He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and persuaded Jews and Greeks.
5. But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Yeshua was the Messiah.
6. When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!”
7. He departed there, and went into the house of a certain man named Justus, one who worshipped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.