When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself to preaching the word[a] and testified to the Jews that Jesus is the Messiah.(A) When they resisted and blasphemed,(B) he shook out his clothes(C) and told them, “Your blood is on your own heads!(D) I am innocent.[b] From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”(E) 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. Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, along with his whole household.(F) Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.

The Lord said to Paul in a night vision, “Don’t be afraid, but keep on speaking and don’t be silent. 10 For I am with you, and no one will lay a hand on you to hurt you, because I have many people in this city.”(G) 11 He stayed there a year and a half, teaching the word of God among them.

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  1. 18:5 Other mss read was urged by the Spirit
  2. 18:6 Lit clean

Now when both Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul began to be occupied with[a] the message, solemnly testifying to the Jews that the Christ[b] was Jesus. And when[c] they resisted and reviled him,[d] he shook out his[e] clothes and[f] said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am guiltless! From now on I will go to the Gentiles!” And leaving there, he entered into the house of someone named[g] Titius Justus, a worshiper[h] of God whose house was next door to the synagogue. And Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord together with his whole household. And many of the Corinthians, when they[i] heard about it,[j] believed and were baptized. And the Lord said to Paul by a vision in the night, “Do not be afraid, but speak and do not keep silent, 10 because I am with you and no one will attack you to harm you, because many people are mine in this city.” 11 So he stayed a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 18:5 The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to be occupied with”)
  2. Acts 18:5 Or “Messiah”
  3. Acts 18:6 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“resisted”)
  4. Acts 18:6 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  5. Acts 18:6 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
  6. Acts 18:6 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“shook out”) has been translated as a finite verb
  7. Acts 18:7 Literally “by name”
  8. Acts 18:7 Or “a God-fearer”
  9. Acts 18:8 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“heard about”) which is understood as temporal
  10. Acts 18:8 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation