# Acts 18

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/acts/18

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. After these things he departed from Athens and came to Corinth.
2. And finding a certain Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus who had recently arrived from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome, he approached them.
3. And because he was a fellow craftsman, he stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade.
4. Every Sabbath he reasoned in the synagogue and persuaded Jews and Greeks.
5. But when Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul, constrained by the word, testified solemnly to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.
6. When they resisted and reviled, he shook out his clothes and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles."
7. And he left that place and entered the house of a certain man named Titus Justus, a worshiper of God, whose house adjoined the synagogue.
8. Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with his whole household, and many of the Corinthians, hearing, believed and were baptized.
9. The Lord said to Paul in the night through a vision, "Do not fear, but speak and do not be silent."
10. Because I am with you, and no one will lay hands on you to harm you, because many people are mine in this city.
11. He stayed there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
12. But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews united against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat.
13. saying, "This man persuades people to worship God contrary to the law."
14. But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If it were indeed some wrongdoing or wicked villainy, O Jews, reasonably I would bear with you."
15. But if it is questions about words and names and your law, see to it yourselves; I do not wish to be a judge of these.
16. And he expelled them from the judgment seat.
17. All seized Sosthenes, the synagogue ruler, and beat him before the judgment seat, but none of these things mattered to Gallio.
18. Paul remained many more days with the brothers, took leave of them, and sailed for Syria together with Priscilla and Aquila, having shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow.
19. They arrived at Ephesus, and he left them there, but he himself went into the synagogue and debated with the Jews.
20. When they asked him to remain for more time, he did not consent.
21. But bidding farewell and saying, "I will return to you again if God wills," he set sail from Ephesus.
22. And after landing at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the church, then went down to Antioch.
23. After spending some time there, he set out, passing successively through the Galatian region and Phrygia while strengthening all the disciples.
24. Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus, being mighty in the Scriptures.
25. He had been instructed in the Lord's way and, fervent in spirit, spoke and taught accurately the things about Jesus, knowing only John's baptism.
26. He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But Priscilla and Aquila, hearing him, took him and explained the way of God to him more precisely.
27. When he resolved to go to Achaia, the brothers urged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him; and on arriving, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace.
28. For he mightily refuted the Jews openly, showing through the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.

## Nearby chapters

[Acts 17](https://www.lumin.faith/read/acts/17.md)
[Acts 19](https://www.lumin.faith/read/acts/19.md)

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