1After that Paul left Athens and he went to a town called Corinth. Before that time there was a big boss in the city called Rome. His name was Claudius. He told all the Jewish people to get out of Rome. So a Jewish man called Aquila left Rome and went to live in Corinth. (Aquila was born in a country called Pontus.) He took his wife with him. Her name was Priscilla. Those 2 made tents for people, that was their work. Paul met Aquila and Priscilla there in Corinth.
3Paul made tents too, so he stayed with them in Corinth and they worked together.
4Every Saturday the Jews and some Greeks met together in the Jewish meeting house. Paul met with them too. He talked with them a lot, trying to get them to believe in Jesus.
5Then Silas and Timothy came to Corinth from Macedonia country, and after that Paul spent all his time telling God’s good news to the Jews. He told them, “Jesus is the man God promised to send.”
6But the Jews wouldn’t listen to Paul and they said bad things about him. So Paul shook the dust from his clothes to show them they were wrong, and he said to them, “You can’t blame me for anything that happens to you now. You can only blame yourselves. From now on I will go and tell God’s word to the people that are not Jews.”
7So Paul stopped going to the Jewish meeting house. He went next door to a man called Titius Justus, and lived in his house. Titius Justus was not a Jew but he respected God.
8A man called Crispus was the boss of the Jewish meeting house. Crispus and everyone in his family believed in Jesus. And a lot of other people in Corinth heard Paul talk about Jesus and they believed in him too. The Christians baptised them all in water.
9One night Paul had like a dream, and our leader said to him, “Don’t be afraid but keep on telling people about me, Jesus. Don’t stop talking about me.
10I am with you, and nobody will attack you and hurt you. I’ve got a lot of people in this town.”
11So Paul stayed in Corinth for one and a half years, teaching God’s word to people.
12Later a man called Gallio became the new Roman boss of that country called Achaia. The Jewish leaders agreed together about what they wanted to do, then they grabbed Paul and took him to the courtroom of that new boss. They blamed Paul,
13and told the boss, “This man is teaching people wrong. He is telling them to break our Jewish law. He is telling them the wrong way to show respect for God.”
14Then Paul got up to talk, but Gallio said, “Wait.” And he said to the Jews, “I will not listen to you mob. If this man did something bad, or if he broke our Roman law, then I will listen to you.
15But you are only arguing about words, and names, and your own Jewish laws, so I will not listen to you. I will not judge these Jewish things. You mob look after that yourselves.”
16Then Gallio threw those Jewish leaders out of the courtroom.
17Then the people there grabbed the leader of the Jewish meeting house, called Sosthenes, and they beat him up right there in front of the courthouse. Gallio saw them hitting him, but he didn’t do anything to stop them.
18Paul kept on living with the Christians in Corinth for some time, then he said goodbye to them and went to the town called Cenchrea. Priscilla and Aquila went with Paul. Then Paul cut all the hair off his head. You see, Paul made a strong promise to God, and in their culture, after they do that they cut their hair off.
19Then Paul and Priscilla and Aquila got on a ship and went to a town called Ephesus. They got off that ship there. Paul went into the Jewish meeting house in Ephesus and talked to the Jews there. They asked him to stay there longer, but he said, “No, sorry, I’ve got to say goodbye and keep going. But I will come back here one day, if God wants me to.” Then, he got on a ship and sailed away from that town. But Priscilla and Aquila stayed in Ephesus.
22Paul came to the town called Caesarea, then he left that ship and went on by road to Jerusalem city, and he said hello to the Christians there. Then he went north to Antioch, a town in Syria country.
23Paul spent some time with the Christians in Antioch, then he left and went again to Galatia and Phrygia countries. He taught the Christians in those places more about Jesus, to make them strong for him.
24At that time there was a Jewish man called Apollos living in a town called Alexandria. Somebody there taught him some things about Jesus. Then he got up and went to Ephesus. He could talk really good and he knew God’s book properly, and he was happy to teach people about Jesus. He taught them the things he knew, but he didn’t know the whole story about Jesus. He only knew the message John the Baptiser taught to people.
26After Apollos got to Ephesus he went to the Jewish meeting house, and he talked strongly to everyone, and he told them all the things that he knew about Jesus. Priscilla and Aquila heard him talk, and they said to him, “Come with us and we will tell you more.” So he went with them and they told him the rest of the story about Jesus, and they told him the way God saves people.
27After that Apollos said, “I want to go to Achaia country.” The Christians in Ephesus said, “That’s good. You go there.” And they wrote a letter to the Christians in Achaia, and told them, “Be friendly to Apollos.” Before that time God was good to some of the Corinth people, and he helped them believe in Jesus. After Apollos got to Corinth he really helped those new Christians there.
28But some of the Jewish leaders didn’t believe in Jesus, so Apollos argued strongly with them all the time. And he talked to everyone, showing them that God’s book tells about the man God promised to send, and he showed them that Jesus is that man.
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