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But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked crime, Jews, it would be reasonable that I should bear with you;
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but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don't want to be a judge of these matters."
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He drove them from the judgment seat.
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Then all the Greeks laid hold on Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. Gallio didn't care about any of these things.
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Paul, having stayed after this yet many days, took his leave of the brothers, and sailed from there for Syria, and Priscilla and Aquila with him. He shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow.
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He came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.
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When they asked him to stay with them a longer time, he declined;
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but taking his leave of them, and saying, "I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you if God wills," he set sail from Ephesus.
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When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the assembly, and went down to Antioch.
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Having spent some time there, he departed, and went through the region of Galatia, and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the disciples.
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Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures.