Paul at Corinth with Aquila and Priscilla

Paul leaves Athens for Corinth. There he finds Aquila, a Jew born in Pontus, and his wife Priscilla, recently arrived from Italy because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. They share the same trade, tentmaking: Paul stays with them and works. When Silas and Timothy arrive from Macedonia, he devotes himself fully to preaching the word. Faced with the Jews’ abuse, he shakes out his clothes: “From henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.” Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believes in the Lord with all his household. One night the Lord says to him: “Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace: … I have much people in this city.” Paul stays a year and six months. The Jews then bring him before the proconsul Gallio, who refuses to be a judge of their law.