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Text -- Acts 18:1-23 (NET)
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Paul at Corinth
18:1 After this Paul departed from Athens and went to Corinth .
18:2 There he found a Jew named Aquila , a native of Pontus , who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla , because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to depart from Rome . Paul approached them ,
18:3 and because he worked at the same trade , he stayed with them and worked with them (for they were tentmakers by trade ).
18:4 He addressed both Jews and Greeks in the synagogue every Sabbath , attempting to persuade them.
18:5 Now when Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia , Paul became wholly absorbed with proclaiming the word , testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ .
18:6 When they opposed him and reviled him, he protested by shaking out his clothes and said to them , “Your blood be on your own heads ! I am guiltless ! From now on I will go to the Gentiles !”
18:7 Then Paul left the synagogue and went to the house of a person named Titius Justus , a Gentile who worshiped God , whose house was next door to the synagogue .
18:8 Crispus , the president of the synagogue , believed in the Lord together with his entire household , and many of the Corinthians who heard about it believed and were baptized .
18:9 The Lord said to Paul by a vision in the night , “Do not be afraid , but speak and do not be silent ,
18:10 because I am with you , and no one will assault you to harm you , because I have many people in this city .”
18:11 So he stayed there a year and six months , teaching the word of God among them .
Paul Before the Proconsul Gallio
18:12 Now while Gallio was proconsul of Achaia , the Jews attacked Paul together and brought him before the judgment seat ,
18:13 saying , “This man is persuading people to worship God in a way contrary to the law !”
18:14 But just as Paul was about to speak , Gallio said to the Jews , “If it were a matter of some crime or serious piece of villainy , I would have been justified in accepting the complaint of you Jews ,
18:15 but since it concerns points of disagreement about words and names and your own law , settle it yourselves . I will not be a judge of these things !”
18:16 Then he had them forced away from the judgment seat .
18:17 So they all seized Sosthenes , the president of the synagogue , and began to beat him in front of the judgment seat . Yet none of these things were of any concern to Gallio .
Paul Returns to Antioch in Syria
18:18 Paul , after staying many more days in Corinth, said farewell to the brothers and sailed away to Syria accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila . He had his hair cut off at Cenchrea because he had made a vow .
18:19 When they reached Ephesus , Paul left Priscilla and Aquila behind there , but he himself went into the synagogue and addressed the Jews .
18:20 When they asked him to stay longer , he would not consent ,
18:21 but said farewell to them and added , “I will come back to you again if God wills .” Then he set sail from Ephesus ,
18:22 and when he arrived at Caesarea , he went up and greeted the church at Jerusalem and then went down to Antioch .
18:23 After he spent some time there, Paul left and went through the region of Galatia and Phrygia , strengthening all the disciples .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Corinth |
Paul |
Achaia |
PAUL, THE APOSTLE, 1 |
LAODICEANS, EPISTLE TO THE |
ACTS OF THE APOSTLES, 13-OUTLINE |
Coriander |
Gallio |
Sosthenes |
TEACH; TEACHER; TEACHING |
Ephesus |
CORINTHIANS, FIRST EPISTLE TO THE |
Synagogue |
PAUL, THE APOSTLE, 5 |
Thessalonians, Epistles to the |
Nolle Prosequi |
Priscilla |
Crispus |
AQUILA |
Zeal |
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NET Notes -> Act 18:1; Act 18:1; Act 18:1; Act 18:1; Act 18:1; Act 18:1; Act 18:2; Act 18:2; Act 18:2; Act 18:2; Act 18:2; Act 18:2; Act 18:2; Act 18:2; Act 18:3; Act 18:3; Act 18:3; Act 18:4; Act 18:4; Act 18:4; Act 18:5; Act 18:5; Act 18:5; Act 18:5; Act 18:5; Act 18:5; Act 18:6; Act 18:6; Act 18:6; Act 18:6; Act 18:6; Act 18:6; Act 18:7; Act 18:7; Act 18:7; Act 18:7; Act 18:7; Act 18:8; Act 18:8; Act 18:9; Act 18:9; Act 18:9; Act 18:10; Act 18:10; Act 18:11; Act 18:11; Act 18:12; Act 18:12; Act 18:12; Act 18:12; Act 18:12; Act 18:12; Act 18:13; Act 18:13; Act 18:14; Act 18:14; Act 18:14; Act 18:14; Act 18:15; Act 18:15; Act 18:15; Act 18:16; Act 18:16; Act 18:17; Act 18:17; Act 18:17; Act 18:17; Act 18:17; Act 18:17; Act 18:18; Act 18:18; Act 18:18; Act 18:18; Act 18:18; Act 18:18; Act 18:18; Act 18:18; Act 18:18; Act 18:18; Act 18:19; Act 18:19; Act 18:19; Act 18:19; Act 18:19; Act 18:19; Act 18:19; Act 18:20; Act 18:21; Act 18:21; Act 18:21; Act 18:21; Act 18:21; Act 18:22; Act 18:22; Act 18:22; Act 18:22; Act 18:22; Act 18:22; Act 18:22; Act 18:22; Act 18:23; Act 18:23; Act 18:23
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NET Notes: Act 18:4 Grk “Addressing in the synagogue every Sabbath, he was attempting to persuade both Jews and Greeks.” Because in English the verb “ad...
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NET Notes: Act 18:8 Or “who heard him,” or “who heard Paul.” The ambiguity here results from the tendency of Greek to omit direct objects, which m...
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NET Notes: Act 18:9 The present imperative here (with negation) is used (as it normally is) of a general condition (BDF §335).
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NET Notes: Act 18:11 See BDAG 326-27 s.v. ἐν 1.d. However, it is also possible that ἐν (en) followed by the dative here stands for the ordinary dativ...
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NET Notes: Act 18:12 The judgment seat (βῆμα, bhma) was a raised platform mounted by steps and sometimes furnished with a seat, used by officials in a...
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NET Notes: Act 18:13 Grk “worship God contrary to.” BDAG 758 s.v. παρά C.6 has “against, contrary to” for Acts 18:13. The words...
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NET Notes: Act 18:15 Or “I am not willing to be.” Gallio would not adjudicate their religious dispute.
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NET Notes: Act 18:17 Rome was officially indifferent to such disputes. Gallio understood how sensitive some Jews would be about his meddling in their affairs. This is simi...
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NET Notes: Act 18:18 He had made a vow. It is debated whether this vow is a private vow of thanksgiving or the Nazirite vow, because it is not clear whether the Nazirite v...
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NET Notes: Act 18:20 He would not consent. Paul probably refused because he wanted to reach Jerusalem for the festival season before the seas became impassable during the ...
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NET Notes: Act 18:21 A new sentence was begun here in the translation due to the length of the sentence in Greek and the requirements of contemporary English style, which ...
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