Acts 18 — Paul in Corinth; Apollos instructed in Ephesus — Greek text and reception
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Acts 18 — Paul in Corinth; Apollos instructed in Ephesus
Paul’s work in Corinth
Verse 18:1
Greek–English Translation
After these things he left Athens and came to Corinth.
Textual and Reception Notes
Verse 18:2
Greek–English Translation
He found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to them,
Textual and Reception Notes
Text: The stated reason for the move is Claudius’s order. No calendar date or external account of that order is inserted.
Verse 18:3
Greek–English Translation
and because he practiced the same trade, he stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade.
Textual and Reception Notes
Text: Skēnopoioi is tentmakers; the exact range of leather or textile work within the trade is not specified.
Verse 18:4
Greek–English Translation
Every Sabbath he reasoned in the synagogue and sought to persuade both Jews and Greeks.
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Verse 18:5
Greek–English Translation
When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself to the word, bearing solemn witness to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.
Textual and Reception Notes
Text: The selected reading is tō logō, the word, not the spirit. Devoted himself expresses being engrossed or constrained by the word without adding a precise work schedule. Evidence: SBL-ACTS-APP, 18:5 lists word with WH/Treg/NA28 and spirit with RP.
Verse 18:6
Greek–English Translation
When they opposed him and spoke abusively, he shook out his garments and said to them, “Your blood be upon your own heads. I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”
Textual and Reception Notes
Text: Blood upon your heads and I am clean preserve the responsibility imagery. The action here concerns garments, not the foot-dust action of 13:51.
Verse 18:7
Greek–English Translation
He left there and entered the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God, whose house was next to the synagogue.
Textual and Reception Notes
Text: Titius Justus is the selected complete name; it is not normalized to Titus.
Verse 18:8
Greek–English Translation
Crispus, the synagogue ruler, believed in the Lord with his whole household. Many of the Corinthians who heard believed and were baptized.
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Verse 18:9
Greek–English Translation
The Lord said to Paul by a vision in the night, “Do not fear, but speak and do not be silent,
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Verse 18:10
Greek–English Translation
because I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city.”
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Verse 18:11
Greek–English Translation
He stayed a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
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Paul before Gallio
Verse 18:12
Greek–English Translation
While Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews rose together against Paul and brought him before the tribunal,
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Verse 18:13
Greek–English Translation
saying, “This man persuades people to worship God contrary to the law.”
Textual and Reception Notes
Text: The accusation says the law without specifying within this clause which legal jurisdiction the speakers intend.
Verse 18:14
Greek–English Translation
As Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were some wrongdoing or wicked crime, O Jews, I would reasonably bear with you.
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Verse 18:15
Greek–English Translation
But if these are questions about a word, names, and your own law, see to it yourselves. I do not wish to be a judge of these things.”
Textual and Reception Notes
Text: Gallio’s classification of the matter is his own speech; the narrator does not supply an independent legal ruling beyond his response.
Verse 18:16
Greek–English Translation
He drove them away from the tribunal.
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Verse 18:17
Greek–English Translation
They all seized Sosthenes, the synagogue ruler, and beat him before the tribunal. Gallio cared about none of these things.
Textual and Reception Notes
Text: The selected subject is all, without an explicit Greeks designation. The attackers’ identity is not silently supplied from another reading. Evidence: SBL-ACTS-APP, 18:17 assigns the added identification the Greeks to RP.
Paul travels through Ephesus and Antioch
Verse 18:18
Greek–English Translation
Paul stayed many more days, then took leave of the brothers and sailed for Syria, with Priscilla and Aquila. He had cut his hair at Cenchreae, for he had a vow.
Textual and Reception Notes
Text: The cutting participle is taken to refer to Paul, the sentence’s principal subject, though Aquila’s proximity creates an alternative attachment. The source says a vow without naming its exact ritual type.
Verse 18:19
Greek–English Translation
They arrived at Ephesus, and he left them there. He himself entered the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.
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Verse 18:20
Greek–English Translation
When they asked him to stay for a longer time, he did not agree.
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Verse 18:21
Greek–English Translation
Instead, he took leave of them, saying, “I will return to you again, God willing,” and sailed from Ephesus.
Textual and Reception Notes
Text: The selected text does not include an additional need to keep a coming feast in Jerusalem. Evidence: SBL-ACTS-APP, 18:21 assigns the added Jerusalem feast clause to RP.
Verse 18:22
Greek–English Translation
He landed at Caesarea, went up and greeted the Church, and went down to Antioch.
Textual and Reception Notes
Text: The city of the Church he greeted is not named in this sentence; Jerusalem is a contextual inference, not inserted as a printed place-name.
Verse 18:23
Greek–English Translation
After spending some time there, he departed and traveled successively through the Galatian region and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.
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Apollos taught more accurately
Verse 18:24
Greek–English Translation
A Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, powerful in the Scriptures.
Textual and Reception Notes
Text: Logios can mean learned or eloquent; eloquent is selected with his scriptural competence separately retained.
Verse 18:25
Greek–English Translation
He had been instructed in the way of the Lord, and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, though he knew only John’s baptism.
Textual and Reception Notes
Text: Fervent in spirit may concern his own spiritual ardor or the Spirit’s action; lower-case spirit avoids making typography settle the referent. The selected object is Jesus, and accurately remains beside the need for fuller instruction in 18:26.
Verse 18:26
Greek–English Translation
He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained the way of God to him more accurately.
Textual and Reception Notes
Text: Priscilla precedes Aquila in the selected order, and both share the teaching action. The more accurately comparison preserves continuity with the accurate instruction already described. Evidence: SBL-ACTS-APP, 18:26 lists Priscilla first with WH/Treg/NA28; RP reverses the names.
Verse 18:27
Greek–English Translation
When he wished to cross over to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. On arriving, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace,
Textual and Reception Notes
Text: Through grace can modify their believing or his helping; this rendering takes it with believed while retaining both actions. The Greek does not supply a separate cause beyond the grace phrase.
Verse 18:28
Greek–English Translation
for he vigorously refuted the Jews in public, demonstrating through the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ.
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