And he drave them from the judgment seat. ] He would not hear, and try the cause; but dismissed them with threatening them, if ever they brought an affair of that kind to him any more.
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And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:
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But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.
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Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things.
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And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow.