\subsection{Acts 18} \VS{1} After these [things], having left from Athens, he came to Corinth. \VS{2} And having found [a] certain Jew by name Akylla, [born in] Ponticus, and Priskilla his wife, being recently come from Italy, because of Claudius having commanded all the Jews to be departing from Rome, he came to them, \VS{3} and because of practicing the same trade, he abided with them and he was working, for they were tent makers by trade. \VS{4} Now he was speaking in the synagogue every Sabbath, and he was persuading both Jews and Greeks. \VS{5} Now as Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was preoccupied with the word, witnessing to the Jews [that] the Christ is Jesus. \VS{6} But when they were opposing [themselves] and slandering [God], [Paul] having shaken out [his] garments said to them: Your blood [is] upon your [own] head. I, clean from it, will now go to the nations\footnote{i.e. the Gentiles}. \VS{7} And having gone from there, he came to the house of a certain Titus Justus by name, of [those] worshipping God, whose house was next door to the synagogue. \VS{8} Now Krispus, the chief of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with his whole house, and many of the Corinthians, having heard, were believing and were being baptized. \VS{9} Now the Lord said to Paul in [the] night during [a] vision: Be not fearing, but be speaking and be not silent. \VS{10} For I am with you, and no one will lay hold [of you] to do you evil, for many people are to me in this city. \VS{11} So he sat [a] year and six months teaching among them the word of God. \VS{12} Now Gallios being proconsul of Achaia, the Jews rose up with one purpose against Paul and brought him to the judgment seat, \VS{13} saying that: This [one] persuades men to worship God contrary to the law. \VS{14} But while Paul was [about] to be opening his mouth, Gallios said to the Jews: If on the one there is some injustice or wicked\fnPoneros{} villainy, O Jews, I would endure according to your law. \VS{15} But if on the other hand [the] issues are concerning word and names and law according to you, you will see [to it], for I do want to be judge of these [things]? \VS{16} And he drove them away from the judgment seat. \VS{17} But all having taken Sosthenes, the chief of the synagogue, they were beating him before the judgment seat; and none of this was [a] concern to Gallius. \VS{18} Now Paul yet abiding several days, having taken leave of the brothers, he sailed to Syria, and with him Priskilla and Akilla, shearing his head in Kegchrea --- for he had [a] vow. \VS{19} So they attained to Ephesus, and he left them there, but he having entered into the synagogue was speaking to the Jews. \VS{20} But while they were asking\fnErotao{} [him] to remain [a] longer time, he did not consent, \VS{21} but having taken leave and having said: Again will we return to you while God wishes [it], he was brought from Ephesus. \VS{22} And arrived in Caesarea, having gone up and having greeted the assembly\fnEkklhsia{}, he went down to Antioch. \VS{23} And having spent some time [there] he went out, going through one after another the Galatik region and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples. \VS{24} Now a certain Jew, Apollo by name, born in Alexandria, [a] learned man, arrived in Ephesus, being able in the scriptures. \VS{25} This [one] was instructing the way of the Lord, and boiling\footnote{or ``throbbing'', ``seething''} in the spirit, he was speaking and teaching carefully concerning Jesus, having known only the baptism of John. \VS{26} And this [one] was beginning to be speaking openly in the synagogue. So having heard him, Priskilla and Akylla took him aside, and more carefully\footnote{or ``accurately''} explained the way of God. \VS{27} Now while he was wanting to go through to Achaia, having been impelled, the brothers wrote to the disciples to receive him; who having arrived, he assisted much to those having believed through grace. \VS{28} For he was vigorously refuting the Jews publicly, having demonstrated through the scriptures [that] Jesus is the Christ.