Acts 18:13-26

¹³saying, This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.

¹⁴But as Paul was going to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, If indeed it was some wrong or wicked criminality, O Jews, of reason I should have borne with you;

¹⁵but if it be questions about words, and names, and the law that ye have, see to it yourselves; for I do not intend to be judge of these things.

¹⁶And he drove them from the judgment-seat.

¹⁷And having all laid hold on Sosthenes the ruler of the synagogue, they beat him before the judgment-seat. And Gallio troubled himself about none of these things.

¹⁸And Paul, having yet stayed there many days, took leave of the brethren and sailed thence to Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila, having shorn his head in Cenchrea, for he had a vow;

¹⁹and he arrived at Ephesus, and left them there. But entering himself into the synagogue he reasoned with the Jews.

²⁰And when they asked him that he would remain for a longer time with them he did not accede,

²¹but bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep the coming feast at Jerusalem; I will return to you again, if God will: and he sailed away from Ephesus.

²²And landing at Caesarea, and having gone up and saluted the assembly, he went down to Antioch.

²³And having stayed there some time, he went forth, passing in order through the country of Galatia and Phrygia, establishing all the disciples.

²⁴But a certain Jew, Apollos by name, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, who was mighty in the scriptures, arrived at Ephesus.

²⁵He was instructed in the way of the Lord, and being fervent in his spirit, he spoke and taught exactly the things concerning Jesus, knowing only the baptism of John.

²⁶And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. And Aquila and Priscilla, having heard him, took him to them and unfolded to him the way of God more exactly.