Acts 18:1-8

Holman Christian Standard Bible

Founding the Corinthian Church

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

⁵ When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with preaching the message^[d] and solemnly testified to the Jews that Jesus is the Messiah.^{(E) 6} But when they resisted and blasphemed,^(F) he shook his robe^[e](G) and told them, “Your blood is on your own heads!^(H) I am innocent.^[f] 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 the Lord, along with his whole household.^(J) Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.