Acts 18:1-12 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

1. After these things, having departed from Athens, he arrived at Corinth.

2. And upon finding a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, who had recently arrived from Italy with Priscilla his wife, (because Claudius had ordered all Jews to depart from Rome,) he met with them.

3. And because he was of the same trade, he lodged with them and was working. (Now they were tentmakers by trade.)

4. And he was arguing in the synagogue on every Sabbath, introducing the name of the Lord Jesus. And he was persuading Jews and Greeks.

5. And when Silas and Timothy had arrived from Macedonia, Paul stood firm in the Word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.

6. But since they were contradicting him and blaspheming, he shook out his garments and said to them: "Your blood is on your own heads. I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles."

7. And moving from that place, he entered into the house of a certain man, named Titus the Just, a worshiper of God, whose house was adjoined to the synagogue.

8. Now Crispus, a leader of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, with his entire house. And many of the Corinthians, upon hearing, believed and were baptized.

9. Then the Lord said to Paul, through a vision in the night: "Do not be afraid. Instead, speak out and do not be silent.

10. For I am with you. And no one will take hold of you, so as to do you harm. For many of the people in this city are with me."

11. Then he settled there for a year and six months, teaching the Word of God among them.

12. But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews rose up with one accord against Paul. And they brought him to the tribunal,

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