³ Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,

² He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,

³ and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers.

⁴ He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks.

⁵ But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

⁶ When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!"

⁷ He departed there, and went into the house of a certain man named Justus, one who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.

⁸ Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.

⁹ The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, "Don't be afraid, but speak and don't be silent;

¹⁰ for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city."

¹¹ He lived there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

¹² But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,

¹³ saying, "This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law."

¹⁴ But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked crime, you Jews, it would be reasonable that I should bear with you;

¹⁵ but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don't want to be a judge of these matters."

¹⁶ He drove them from the judgment seat.

¹⁷ Then all the Greeks laid hold on Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. Gallio didn't care about any of these things.

²⁶ He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside, and explained to him the way of God more accurately.

⁹ Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved.

¹⁶ that you also be in subjection to such, and to everyone who helps in the work and labors.

¹⁹ The assemblies of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla greet you much in the Lord, together with the assembly that is in their house.

¹⁹ Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the house of Onesiphorus.