1 After these events, Paul left Athens {Athenai: influential Greek city} and arrived in Corinth {Korinthos: major Greek port}.
2 Paul found a Jew named Aquila {Akylas: Latin personal name}, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla {Priskilla: Roman diminutive name} because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to depart from Rome, and he went to them.
3 Because he shared the same craft, he lodged with them and labored among them, for their occupation {techne: skilled profession} was making tents {skenopoioi: makers of portable shelters}.
4 On every Sabbath he would engage in careful discussion {dielegeto: dialoguing carefully} in the synagogue, seeking to persuade Jews and Greeks {Hellenas: Greek-speaking Gentiles}.
5 But when both Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was being constrained by the word, solemnly testifying to the Jews that the Christ {Christos, Promised Messiah} is Jesus {Iesous, Revealed Savior}.
6 When they kept resisting and speaking against him, he shook out his clothes and said, “Your blood is on your own heads; I am clean {katharos: free of responsibility}. From this point on I will go to the Gentiles {ethnē: non-Jewish nations}.”
7 And after departing from there, he entered into the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God {Theos, Revered Recipient Of Worship}, whose house was adjoining the synagogue {synagoge: Jewish meeting place}.
8 Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue {archisynagogos: chief Jewish official}, believed in the Lord {Kyrios, Trusted Redeemer} along with his whole household; and many Corinthians, as they listened, believed and were being baptized.
9 In the night, the Lord {Kyrios, Courage-Giving Master} spoke to Paul by a vision, “Do not be afraid {phobou: give in to fear}; instead, speak, and do not be silent.”
10 For I {Iesous, Assuring Protector} am with you, and no one will lay hands on you to harm you, because I have many people {laos: those who are Mine} in this city.
11 So he remained there for a year and six months, teaching {didaskon: ongoing instruction} the word of God {Theos, Source Of Word} among them.
12 While Gallio {Gallion: Roman provincial governor} was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews {Ioudaioi: Jewish accusers}, acting together, rose up against Paul and brought him to the judgment seat.
13 They were saying, “This man is persuading people to worship God {Theos, One Worthy Of Worship} in a way that is contrary to the law {nomos: Jewish legal code}.”
14 As Paul was about to speak, Gallio said to the Jews, “If this were a case of wrongdoing {adikema: legal offense} or a serious evil act, O Jews, it would be reasonable for me to bear {aneschomen: patient endurance} with you.”
15 But if it is about disputes concerning words and names {onomaton: formal identifiers} and your own law, handle it yourselves; I do not want to be a judge {krites: official arbiter} of these matters.
16 And he drove {apelasen: forcibly removed} them away from the judgment seat {bema: Roman judicial bench}.
17 Then all of them seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue {archisunagogos: local Jewish official}, and they were beating him in front of the judgment seat {bema: public tribunal}. Yet none of these things was a concern to Gallio.
18 Paul {Paulos: Itinerant Apostle} stayed on for many days, then said farewell to the brothers and sailed for Syria, with Priscilla and Aquila traveling with him. At Cenchreae he shaved his head, for he had a vow {euchen: sacred commitment}.
19 When they reached Ephesus {Ephesos: major port city}, he left them there, but he himself entered the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews {Ioudaioi: Judean people}.
20 But when they requested {erotao: ask earnestly} that he remain for a longer time {pleiona: extended period}, he did not consent {epeneuo: grant permission}.
21 But after bidding them farewell and saying, “I will return to you again, if God {Theos, Sovereign Guide} is willing,” he set sail from Ephesus {Ephesos: major Greco-Roman city}.
22 After he came down to Caesarea {Kaisareia: coastal city}, he went up, greeted the church {ekklesia: local congregation}, and then went down to Antioch.
23 After he spent a period of time {chronon: limited stay} there, he left and traveled through the Galatian region and Phrygia in sequence, strengthening all the disciples {mathetas: learning believers}.
24 Now Apollos, a Jew {Ioudaios: Jewish man} from Alexandria, an eloquent man, arrived in Ephesus; he was powerful in the Scriptures {graphais: sacred writings}.
25 This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord {Kyrios, Recognized Master} and, being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus {Iesous, Center of the message}, although he knew only the baptism of John.
26 He initiated a bold discourse in the synagogue, and when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they drew him aside and expounded the way of God {Theos, Divine Instructor} to him with increased precision {akribesteron: with greater exactness}.
27 When he wanted to cross into Achaia {Achaia: southern Greek region}, the brothers {adelphoi: fellow believers} encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. After he arrived, he provided considerable assistance to those who had believed through the grace.
28 For he was forcefully refuting the Jews {Ioudaioi: synagogue opponents} in public, proving through the Scriptures that Jesus {Iesous, Revealed Messiah} is the Christ.