Acts 18:5-9

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—