Founding the Corinthian Church

18 After this, he^[a] left Athens and went to Corinth,^{(A) 2} where he found a Jew named Aquila,^(B) a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul came to them, ³ and since they were of the same occupation, tentmakers by trade,^(C) he stayed with them and worked. ⁴ He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and tried to persuade both Jews and Greeks.^(D)

⁵ When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself to preaching the word^[b] and testified to the Jews that Jesus is the Messiah.^{(E) 6} When they resisted and blasphemed,^(F) he shook out his clothes^(G) and told them, “Your blood is on your own heads!^(H) I am innocent.^[c] From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”^{(I) 7} So he left there and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God, whose house was next door to the synagogue. ⁸ Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, along with his whole household.^(J) Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.