1. After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.
2. He found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. And he went to them.
3. And because he was of the same trade, he remained with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade.
4. He lectured in the synagogue every Sabbath and persuaded Jews and Greeks.
5. When Silas and Timothy came from Macedonia, Paul was pressed by the Spirit and testified to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.
6. But when they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his garments and said to them, “Your blood be upon your heads. I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”
7. Then he departed from there and entered the house of a man named Justus, one who worshipped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.
8. Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with his entire household. And many of the Corinthians, who heard, believed and were baptized.