Acts 18:4

And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.

Ver. 4. Persuaded the Jews] Men may speak persuasively, but God only can persuade. Genesis 9:27, Japheth's children were to be won by persuasion. Therefore Christ sent forth to them not soldiers, but fishers, who might work upon them docendo non ducendo, monendo non minaudo, by informing them, not by enforcing them.