Acts 18:9-22

⁹And the Lord said unto Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak and hold not thy peace:

¹⁰for I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to harm thee: for I have much people in this city.

¹¹And he dwelt there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

¹²But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment-seat,

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

¹⁴But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked villany, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:

¹⁵but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves; I am not minded to be a judge of these matters.

¹⁶And he drove them from the judgment-seat.

¹⁷And they all laid hold on Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment-seat. And Gallio cared for none of these things.

¹⁸And Paul, having tarried after this yet many days, took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence for Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila: having shorn his head in Cenchreæ; for he had a vow.

¹⁹And they came to Ephesus, and he left them there: but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.

²⁰And when they asked him to abide a longer time, he consented not;

²¹but taking his leave of them, and saying, I will return again unto you if God will, he set sail from Ephesus.

²²And when he had landed at Cæsarea, he went up and saluted the church, and went down to Antioch.