Acts 18:14-24

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.