Acts 18:1-6
PAUL AT CORINTH. Aquila and Priscilla and the beginning of the work:... [ Continue Reading ]
PAUL AT CORINTH. Aquila and Priscilla and the beginning of the work:... [ Continue Reading ]
AFTER THESE THINGS PAUL DEPARTED FROM ATHENS AND CAME TO CORINTH,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND FOUND A CERTAIN JEW NAMED AQUILA, BORN IN PONTUS, LATELY COME FROM ITALY, WITH HIS WIFE PRISCILLA, (BECAUSE THAT CLAUDIUS HAD COMMANDED ALL JEWS TO DEPART FROM ROME,) AND CAME UNTO THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND BECAUSE HE WAS OF THE SAME CRAFT, HE ABODE WITH THEM AND WROUGHT; FOR BY THEIR OCCUPATION THEY WERE TENT-MAKERS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE REASONED IN THE SYNAGOGUE EVERY SABBATH, AND PERSUADED THE JEWS AND THE GREEKS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN SILAS AND TIMOTHEUS WERE COME FROM MACEDONIA, PAUL WAS PRESSED IN THE SPIRIT, AND TESTIFIED TO THE JEWS THAT JESUS WAS CHRIST.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY OPPOSED THEMSELVES, AND BLASPHEMED, HE SHOOK HIS RAIMENT AND SAID UNTO THEM, YOUR BLOOD BE UPON YOUR HEADS; I AM CLEAN; FROM HENCEFORTH I WILL GO UNTO THE GENTILES. Paul had intended to wait for Silas and Timothy in Athens, but conditions caused him to leave this city before they arriv... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE DEPARTED THENCE, AND ENTERED INTO A CERTAIN MAN'S HOUSE NAMED JUSTUS, ONE THAT WORSHIPED GOD, WHOSE HOUSE JOINED HARD TO THE SYNAGOGUE.... [ Continue Reading ]
Success in preaching to the Gentiles:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND CRISPUS, THE CHIEF RULER OF THE SYNAGOGUE, BELIEVED ON THE LORD WITH ALL HIS HOUSE; AND MANY OF THE CORINTHIANS HEARING BELIEVED, AND WERE BAPTIZED.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN SPAKE THE LORD TO PAUL IN THE NIGHT BY A VISION, BE NOT AFRAID, BUT SPEAK, AND HOLD NOT THY PEACE;... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR I AM WITH THEE, AND NO MAN SHALL SET ON THEE TO HURT THEE; FOR I HAVE MUCH PEOPLE IN THIS CITY.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE CONTINUED THERE A YEAR AND SIX MONTHS, TEACHING THE WORD OF GOD AMONG THEM. Having gone out from there, from the synagogue, having departed, removed himself, from the midst of the blaspheming Jews, Paul was not long at a loss for a suitable meeting-place. He entered at once into the house of... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN GALLIO WAS THE DEPUTY OF ACHAIA, THE JEWS MADE INSURRECTION WITH ONE ACCORD AGAINST PAUL, AND BROUGHT HIM TO THE JUDGMENT-SEAT,... [ Continue Reading ]
The insurrection at the time of Gallio:... [ Continue Reading ]
SAYING, THIS FELLOW PERSUADETH MEN TO WORSHIP GOD CONTRARY TO THE LAW.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN PAUL WAS NOW ABOUT TO OPEN HIS MOUTH, GALLIO SAID UNTO THE JEWS, IF IT WERE A MATTER OF WRONG OR WICKED LEWDNESS, O YE JEWS, REASON WOULD THAT I SHOULD BEAR WITH YOU;... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT IF IT BE A QUESTION OF WORDS AND NAMES AND OF YOUR LAW, LOOK YE TO IT; FOR I WILL BE NO JUDGE OF SUCH MATTERS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE DRAVE THEM FROM THE JUDGMENT-SEAT.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN ALL THE GREEKS TOOK SOSTHENES, THE CHIEF RULER OF THE SYNAGOGUE, AND BEAT HIM BEFORE THE JUDGMENT-SEAT. AND GALLIO CARED FOR NONE OF THOSE THINGS. Gallio became proconsul of Achaia and took charge of the affairs of the province in the summer of 51 A. D., almost a year after Paul had come to Cor... [ Continue Reading ]
AND PAUL, AFTER THIS, TARRIED THERE YET A GOOD WHILE, AND THEN TOOK HIS LEAVE OF THE BRETHREN, AND SAILED THENCE INTO SYRIA, AND WITH HIM PRISCILLA AND AQUILA; HAVING SHORN HIS HEAD IN CENCHREA, FOR HE HAD A VOW.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE RETURN TRIP TO ANTIOCH AND THE BEGINNING OF THE THIRD JOURNEY. From Corinth to Antioch:... [ Continue Reading ]
And he came to Ephesus and left them there; but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.... [ Continue Reading ]
When they desired him to tarry longer time with them, he consented not,... [ Continue Reading ]
but bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem; But I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.... [ Continue Reading ]
And when he had landed at Caesarea, and gone up and saluted the church, he went down to Antioch. After the unsuccessful uprising of the Jews, which must have occurred in the fall of 51 A. D., Paul remained in Corinth a matter of another half year, many days, as Luke reports, showing that there was n... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AFTER HE HAD SPENT SOME TIME THERE, HE DEPARTED AND WENT OVER ALL THE COUNTRY OF GALATIA AND PHRYGIA IN ORDER, STRENGTHENING ALL THE DISCIPLES.... [ Continue Reading ]
The beginning of the third missionary journey:... [ Continue Reading ]
and a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus.... [ Continue Reading ]
This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John.... [ Continue Reading ]
And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue; whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.... [ Continue Reading ]
And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him; who, when he was come, helped them much which had believed through grace;... [ Continue Reading ]
for he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publicly, showing by the Scriptures that Jesus was Christ. Paul had probably reached Antioch in the early summer of the year 52, but he did not spend much time there. His zeal for the Lord and the Gospel did not permit him to rest. Even before the heat of... [ Continue Reading ]