Acts 18:2-20

²where he met a Jew named Aquila. Aquila was originally from Pontus, and had just arrived from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all Jews expelled from Rome. Paul went to see them,

³and because they were in the same business of tent-making, he stayed with them.

⁴He debated in the synagogue every Sabbath, convincing both Jews and Greeks.

⁵When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul felt he had to become more direct in what he said, and told the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah.

⁶When they opposed him and cursed him, he shook out his clothes and told them, “Your blood is on your own heads! I am innocent of any guilt, and from now on I will go to the foreigners.”

⁷He left and went to stay with Titius Justus, who worshiped God and whose house was next door to the synagogue.

⁸Crispus, leader of the synagogue, believed in the Lord together with his whole household. Many of the people of Corinth who heard the message became believers and were baptized.

⁹The Lord told Paul in a vision at night: “Don't be afraid. Speak up, don't keep quiet—

¹⁰because I am with you, and no-one will attack you, for many people in this city are mine.”

¹¹Paul stayed there for eighteen months, teaching the people the word of God.

¹²However, during the time when Gallio was the governor of Achaia, the Jews united in an attack against Paul and brought him before the court.

¹³“This man is persuading people to worship God illegally,” they declared.

¹⁴But just as Paul was about to defend himself, Gallio told the Jews, “If you Jews were bringing criminal charges or some serious legal offense, there would be a reason for me to listen to your case.

¹⁵But since you're only arguing over words and names and your own law, then you deal with it yourselves. I won't rule on such matters.”

¹⁶Then Gallio had them ejected from the court.

¹⁷Then the crowd turned on Sosthenes, the leader of the synagogue, and beat him right outside the court, but Gallio wasn't concerned about this at all.

¹⁸Paul stayed on for a while. Then left the believers and sailed for Syria, taking Priscilla and Aquila along with him. He had his head shaved while in Cenchrae, because he had taken a vow.

¹⁹They arrived in Ephesus, where Paul left the others behind. He went to the synagogue to reason with the Jews.

²⁰They asked him to stay longer, but he refused.