Acts 18:5-16

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.