Acts Chapter 18

Acts Chapter 18

After all of that Paul left Athens and came to Corinth.  He found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus coming form Italy with his wife Pricilla (Claudius had kicked all of the Jews out of Rome) and came to them.  Apparently they were on the same craft, and he stayed with them, they were tentmakers by trade.


Paul went and talked in the synagogue every Sabbath to persuade the Greeks and Jews. When Silas and Timotheus came from Macedonia, Paul was preaching in the spirit and trying to convert the Jews to be new little Christians.  But when the people didn’t want to be converted, and they blasphemed, and he shook his clothes and told them their blood was on their own heads.  Way to show compassion Paulie!  I am clean and from now on I am going to the gentiles.  So the Jew’s may be God’s chosen people but the gentiles are Paul’s chosen people.


So he left and went to a certain man named Justus’s house.  He  worshipped God and his house was closely joined to the synagogue. Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue believed in the lord along with his house and many of the Corinthians believed after hearing and were baptized.


The Lord spoke to Paul that night in a vision, saying “Don’t be afraid, but don’t hold your piece either.   I am with you, so no one can hurt you, because I’ve got a lot of people in this city.” Wow great important message from God there. So Paul stayed there for six months teaching the word of God.


When Gallio was the deputy o Achaia, the Jews formed an insurrection against Paul and brought him to the Judgment seat saying Paul persuades people to worship God contrary to the law.  Which is true, he does that. Paul tells him “If it were a matter of wrong, or wicked lewdness, O you Jews, then I would agree with you, but if it’s a matter o words and name, and your laws, then I won’t judge.”  And he drove them from the judgment seat.


Then all of the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue beat him before the judgment seat. Sheesh folks violence isn’t always the answer.  Maybe you should try talking ot the guy. And by the way Paul’s vision of God totally lied they just beat him I would say that hurts.  Gallio didn’t care for any of it.


After Paul stayed there a good while, he left his brethren and sailed to Syria with Pricilla and Aquila.  He cut his hair short in Cenchrea because he had a vow.  Then he went to Ephesus and let them there.   But he entered the synagogue and resoned with the Jews.  When they wanted him to stay with them, he decided to go and bid them farewell saying he must go to the feast in Jerusalem  But he’d come back to them if it was god’s will.  Then he sailed from Ephesus.


When he landed at Caesarea he went and saluted the church, and he went down to Antioch.  After he stayed there a while he left and went all over the country of Galatia and Phrygia to strengthen the disciples.


A certain Jew named Apollos born in Alexandria who was an eloquent man and strongly versed in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.  This guy was instructed in the way of the Lord, being fervent in the spirit, he spoke and taught the things of the Lord diligently, but he only knew the baptism of John.  He began speaking boldly in the synagogue, when Aquila and Pricilla heard they took to him and showed him the way of God more perfectly.  When he went to Achaia the brethren wrote so to encourage, the disciples to receive him, and he helped them with what they has believed through grace.  Because he was good at convincing the Jews and publicly showing the scriptures that proved Jesus was the Christ.