Founding the Corinthian Church
1 After this, he left from Athens and went to Corinth,
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where he found a Jewish man named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius 41-54; he expelled all Jews from Rome in a.d. 49. had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul came to them,
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and being of the same occupation, stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade.
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He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and tried to persuade both Jews and Greeks.
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When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with preaching the message and solemnly testified to the Jews that the Messiah is Jesus.
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But when they resisted and blasphemed, he shook out his clothes and told them, "Your blood is on your own heads! I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."
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So he left there and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.
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Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, believed the Lord, along with his whole household; and many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.
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Then the Lord said to Paul in a night vision, "Don't be afraid, but keep on speaking and don't be silent.
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For I am with you, and no one will lay a hand on you to hurt you, because I have many people in this city."