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A year in Corinth

18 After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently arrived from Italy with Priscilla his wife, due to Claudius’s edict banishing all Jews from Rome. Paul paid them a visit and, because they were in the same business, he stayed with them and worked. They were, by trade, tentmakers.

Paul argued every sabbath in the synagogue, and persuaded both Jews and Greeks. When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was putting great energy into the task of bearing forthright witness to the Jews that the Messiah really was Jesus. When they opposed him, and blasphemed, he shook out his clothes.

“Your blood be on your own heads!” he said. “I am innocent. From now on I shall go to the Gentiles.”

He moved on from the synagogue, and went into the house of a man named Titius Justus, a godfearer who lived opposite the synagogue. But Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, with all his household, and many of the Corinthians heard about it, came to faith, and were baptized.

The Lord spoke to Paul by night in a vision.

“Don’t be afraid,” he said. “Speak on, and don’t be silent, 10 because I am with you, and nobody will be able to lay a finger on you to harm you. There are many of my people in this city.”

11 He stayed there eighteen months, teaching the word of God among them.

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