Acts 18:10-21

¹⁰for I am with thee, and no one shall lay hands on thee, to hurt thee; for I have much people in this city.

¹¹And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

¹²And when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews rose up with one accord against Paul, and brought him before the judgment-seat,

¹³saying, This man persuadeth people to worship God contrary to the law.

¹⁴And as Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, If it were some act of injustice or wicked misdeed, O Jews, with reason I should bear with you;

¹⁵but if it be questions of doctrine, and names, and your law, look to it yourselves; I will not be a judge of these matters.

¹⁶And he drove them from the judgment-seat.

¹⁷But they all laid hold of Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment-seat; and Gallio cared for none of these things.

¹⁸And Paul, having stayed many days longer, took leave of the brethren, and sailed thence to Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila, after he had shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow.

¹⁹And they came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself entered the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.

²⁰And when they asked him to stay longer, he consented not;

²¹but having taken leave of them, saying, I will return to you, if God will, he set sail from Ephesus.