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Acts 18 - Read-Along · The Five Minute Bible Podcast

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  Acts chapter 18. After these things he left
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  Athens and went to Corinth, and he found a Jew named Aquila, a
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  native of Pontus, having recently come from Italy with
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  his wife Priscilla. Because Claudius had commanded
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  all the Jews to leave Rome, he came to them, and because he was
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  of the same trade, he stayed with them, and they were working
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  for by trade. They were tent makers, and he
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  was reasoning in the synagogue every Sabbath and trying to
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  persuade Jews and Greeks. But when Silas and Timothy came
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  down from Macedonia, Paul began devoting himself completely to
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  the Word, solemnly testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the
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  Christ. When they resisted and
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  blasphemed, he shook out his garments and said to them, Your
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  blood be on your own heads. I am clean.
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  From now on I will go to the Gentiles.
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  Then he left there and went to the House of a man named Tishius
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  Justice, a worshipper of God, whose house was next to the
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  synagogue. Crispus, the leader of the
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  synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his household.
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  And many of the Corinthians, when they heard, were believing
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  and being baptized. And the Lord said to Paul in the
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  night by a vision, Do not be afraid any longer, but go on
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  speaking, and do not be silent, for I am with you, and no man
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  will attack you in order to harm you.
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  For I have many people in this city.
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  And he settled there for a year and six months, teaching the
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  word of God among them. But while Gallio was proconsul
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  of Akaya, the Jews with 1 accord rose up against Paul and brought
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  him before the judgement seat, saying, This man persuades men
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  to worship God contrary to the law.
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  But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the
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  Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or a vicious crime, O
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  Jews, it would be reasonable for me to put up with you.
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  But if there are questions about words and names in your own law,
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  look after it yourselves. I'm unwilling to be a judge of
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  these matters. And he drove them away from the
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  judgement seat, and they all took hold of Sosthenes, the
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  leader of the synagogue, and began beating him in front of
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  the judgement seat. But Gallio was not concerned
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  about any of these things. Paul, having remained many days
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  longer, took leave of the brethren and put out to sea for
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  Syria. And with him were Priscilla and
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  Aquila in Sangria. He had his hair cut, for he was
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  keeping a vow. They came to Ephesus, and he
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  left them there. Now he himself entered the
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  synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.
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  When they asked him to stay for a longer time, he did not
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  consent, but taking leave of them and saying, I will return
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  to you again, if God wills, he set sail from Ephesus.
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  When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the
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  church and went down to Antioch, and having spent some time
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  there, he left and passed successively through the
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  Galatian region and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.
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  Now a Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, an
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  eloquent man, came to Ephesus, and he was mighty.
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  In the Scriptures. This man had been instructed in
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  the way of the Lord, and being fervent in spirit, he was
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  speaking and teaching accurately the things concerning Jesus,
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  being acquainted only with the baptism of John.
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  And he began to speak out boldly in the synagogue.
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  But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside
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  and explained to him the way of God more accurately.
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  When he wanted to go across to Achaea, the brethren encouraged
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  him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him.
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  When he had arrived, he greatly helped those who had believed
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  through grace, for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public,
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  demonstrating by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.