ACTS Chapter 18 -- SECOND TOUR: CORINTH FOUNDING THE CHURCH -- Acts 18:1-11 After this [Paul] departed from Athens and went to Corinth. -- 18:1 There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, recently arrived from Italy with Priscilla his wife, due to the fact that Claudius had issued an edict that all the Jews were to leave Rome. And [Paul] went to see them, -- 18:2 And because he was of the same occupation, he stayed with them; and they worked [together], for they were tentmakers by trade. -- 18:3 But he discoursed and argued in the synagogue every Sabbath and won over [both] Jews and Greeks. -- 18:4 By the time Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was completely engrossed with preaching, earnestly arguing and testifying to the Jews that Jesus [is] the Christ. -- 18:5 But since they kept opposing and abusing and reviling him, he shook out his clothing [against them] and said to them, Your blood be upon your [own] heads! I am innocent [of it]. From now on I will go to the Gentiles (the heathen). [Acts 13:46.] -- 18:6 He then left there and went to the house of a man named Titus Justus, who worshiped God and whose house was next door to the synagogue. -- 18:7 (See 1 Cor. 1-4 for Pauls own account. His ministry in this dissolute thriving metropolis was begun in spiritual and financial testing. There was no word from Silas or Timothy concerning permanence of the work in Macedonia and little encouragement at Athens. What about Corinth? Pauls finding Aquila and Priscilla, with whom he lodged and found employment as a tent weaver, was providential. -- New Ungers Bible Handbook)
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