Acts 18

Founding the Corinthian Church

1After this, he # 18:1 Other mss read Paul left Athens and went to Corinth, # 18:1 Ac 17:15; 19:1; 1Co 1:2; 2Co 1:1,23; 2Tm 4:20 2where he found a Jew named Aquila, # 18:2 Ac 18:18,26; Rm 16:3–5; 1Co 16:19; 2Tm 4:19 a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul came to them, 3and since they were of the same occupation, tentmakers by trade, # 18:3 Ac 20:34; 1Co 4:12; 9:15; 2Co 11:7; 12:13; 1Th 2:9; 2Th 3:8 he stayed with them and worked. 4He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and tried to persuade both Jews and Greeks. # 18:4 Ac 9:20; 13:14; 14:1; 18:19

5When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself to preaching the word # 18:5 Other mss read was urged by the Spirit and testified to the Jews that Jesus is the Messiah. # 18:5 Jb 32:18; Ac 15:22; 16:1,9; 17:3,14–15; 18:28; 1Th 3:6 6When they resisted and blasphemed, # 18:6 Ac 13:45; Rm 3:8; 1Co 4:13; Ti 3:2 he shook out his clothes # 18:6 Neh 5:13; Mt 10:14; Ac 13:51 and told them, “Your blood is on your own heads! # 18:6 2Sm 1:16; Ezk 18:13; 33:4; Mt 27:25 I am innocent. # 18:6 Lit clean From now on I will go to the Gentiles.” # 18:6 Ezk 3:18; Ac 13:46 7So he left there and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God, whose house was next door to the synagogue. 8Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, along with his whole household. # 18:8 Mk 5:22; Ac 11:14; 1Co 1:14 Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.

9The Lord said to Paul in a night vision, “Don’t be afraid, but keep on speaking and don’t be silent. 10For I am with you, and no one will lay a hand on you to hurt you, because I have many people in this city.” # 18:9–10 Mt 28:20; Ac 23:11 11He stayed there a year and a half, teaching the word of God among them.

12While Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a united attack against Paul and brought him to the tribunal. # 18:12 Ac 13:7; 18:27 13“This man,” they said, “is persuading people to worship God in ways contrary to the law.”

14As Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of wrongdoing or of a serious crime, it would be reasonable for me to put up with you Jews. 15But if these are questions about words, names, and your own law, see to it yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of such things.” # 18:15 Ac 23:29; 25:11,19 16So he drove them from the tribunal. 17And they all # 18:17 Other mss read Then all the Greeks seized Sosthenes, # 18:17 1Co 1:1 the leader of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the tribunal, but none of these things mattered to Gallio.

The Return Trip to Antioch

18After staying for some time, Paul said farewell to the brothers and sisters and sailed away to Syria, accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his head at Cenchreae because of a vow he had taken. # 18:18 Nm 6:2,5,9,18; Ac 21:24; Rm 16:1 19When they reached Ephesus # 18:19 Ac 19:1; 20:16; 1Co 15:32; 1Tm 1:3; 2Tm 1:18 he left them there, but he himself entered the synagogue and debated with the Jews. 20When they asked him to stay for a longer time, he declined, 21but he said farewell and added, # 18:21 Other mss add “By all means it is necessary to keep the coming festival in Jerusalem. But “I’ll come back to you again, if God wills.” # 18:21 Rm 1:10; 1Co 4:19; 16:7; Heb 6:3; Jms 4:15; 1Pt 3:17 Then he set sail from Ephesus.

22On landing at Caesarea, he went up to Jerusalem and greeted the church, then went down to Antioch. # 18:22 Ac 8:40; 11:19

23After spending some time there, he set out, traveling through one place after another in the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples. # 18:23 Ac 14:22; 16:6

The Eloquent Apollos

24Now a Jew named Apollos, # 18:24 Ac 19:1; 1Co 1:12; 3:5; 4:6; 16:12; Ti 3:13 a native Alexandrian, an eloquent man who was competent in the use of the Scriptures, arrived in Ephesus. 25He had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, # 18:25 Or in the Spirit he was speaking and teaching accurately about Jesus, although he knew only John’s baptism. # 18:25 Lk 7:29; Ac 9:2; 19:3; Rm 12:11 26He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. After Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside # 18:26 Lit they received him and explained the way of God to him more accurately. # 18:26 Mt 2:8; Lk 1:3; Ac 18:25; 23:15,20; 24:22; Eph 5:15; 1Th 5:2 27When he wanted to cross over to Achaia, the brothers and sisters wrote to the disciples to welcome him. After he arrived, he was a great help to those who by grace had believed. # 18:27 Ac 18:12,18; 1Co 3:6 28For he vigorously refuted the Jews in public, demonstrating through the Scriptures that Jesus is the Messiah. # 18:28 Ac 9:22; 17:2–3; 18:5

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Gevurot Meyruach Hakodesh 18

1After these things Rav Sha'ul left Athens and went to Corinth. 2And in Corinth Rav Sha'ul found some Messianic Jews, namely Aquila hailing from Pontus, having recently come from Italy, where Claudius ordered a decree of Jewish expulsion from Rome, and Priscilla, his isha. Rav Sha'ul went to see them. 3And because he had the same parnasah (livelihood), Rav Sha'ul was staying with them, and he was working with them, for they were tentmakers by trade. 4And Rav Sha'ul was debating in the shul every Shabbos, and he was convincing Yehudim and Yevanim.

5Now when both Sila and Timotiyos came down from Macedonia, Rav Sha'ul was farnumen (preoccupied) and totally absorbed with the dvar Hashem, bearing solemn edut to the Yehudim that Yehoshua is the Moshiach. 6But when some began opposing Rav Sha'ul, and when they began committing Chillul Hashem, Rav Sha'ul shook out his kaftan and said to them, The responsibility of your lot be upon your own head! For I am tahor (clean); from now on, I go to the Nations.#18:6 2Sm 1:16; Ezek 33:4; 3:17-19; Neh 5:13 7And so Rav Sha'ul left them, and entered into the bais of a certain ish by the name Titius Justus, a yire Elohim whose bais was right next door to the shul! 8And Crispus, the Rosh Beit HaKnesset, came to emunah in Moshiach Adoneinu along with his entire bais; also many of the Corinthians who heard came to emunah, and were being given Moshiachʼs tevilah of teshuva. 9Then in the lailah, through a chazon, Adonoi said to Rav Sha'ul, Do not fear, but speak out, and do not keep silent, 10For I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you; I have many people in this city. 11And Rav Sha'ul sat shanah and shishah chodashim saying shiurim to them on the dvar Hashem.

12And when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the [disobedient] Yehudim rose up with one accord keneged (against, in opposition to) Rav Sha'ul, and they took him to court, 13Saying, This one persuades anashim to worship Hashem in a manner hepech der Torah (contrary to the Torah). 14Rav Sha'ul was about to open his mouth when Gallio spoke to the Yehudim, If this matter concerned some wrong or heinous crime, O Yehudim, I might reasonably put up with you; 15But if it is kashes (questions) about a dvar and shemot (names) and your Torah, you will see to it for yourselves. I do not intend to be a shofet (judge) of these things. 16And he had them ejected from the courtroom. 17They seized Sosthenes, the Rosh HaKnesset, and were beating him in full view of the Kes HaMishpat (Judgment Seat), and none of these things created a concern for Gallio.

18But Rav Sha'ul still remained a number of yamim and then took leave of the Achim b'Moshiach, and was sailing away to Syria; and with him were Priscilla and Aquila. In Cenchrea he cut his hair, for he had taken a neder (vow).#18:18 Num 6:2,5,18 19Then they arrived in Ephesus, and Rav Sha'ul left them there, but he joined the minyan in the shul and debated with the Yehudim. 20And when they were asking Rav Sha'ul to stay for a longer time, he did not give his consent. 21But taking leave of them, he said, I will return again im yirtzeh Hashem (G-d willing). Then Rav Sha'ul set sail from Ephesus.

22And having come down to Caesarea and having gone up and greeted the [Yerushalayim] Kehillah of Moshiach, then Rav Sha'ul went down to Antioch. 23And having spent some time, he embarked, passing through the area of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the Moshiachʼs talmidim.

24Now a certain man, a Yehudi, arrived in Ephesus, Apollos by name, hailing from Alexandria, a lamdan (a Torah scholar with prodigious knowledge), being tief (deep and profound, erudite, keen) in the Kitvei HaKodesh. 25This one had been taught the Derech Hashem and was on fire in the Ruach Hakodesh and saying shiurim and drashot accurate and true to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach. But Rav Apollos was acquainted only with the tevilah of teshuva of Yochanan.#18:25 See Lk 3:16 26And this rabbi began to speak with ometz lev (boldness) in the shul. And having heard him, Priscilla and Aquila took him and more accurately instructed him in the Derech Hashem. 27When Rav Apollos desired to go to Achaia, the Achim b'Moshiach encouraged him and wrote iggrot to Moshiachʼs talmidim there to welcome him. When Rav Apollos arrived, he greatly helped the ones who through the Chen v'Chesed Hashem had come to emunah. 28For Rav Apollos was publicly and powerfully refuting the [unbelieving] Yehudim, showing through the Kitvei HaKodesh that Yehoshua is the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.

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