1. And after these things, having left Athens, he came to Corinth;
2. and finding a certain Jew by name Aquila, of Pontus by race, just come from Italy, and Priscilla his wife, (because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome,) came to them,
3. and because they were of the same trade abode with them, and wrought. For they were tent-makers by trade.
4. And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks.
5. And when both Silas and Timotheus came down from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in respect of the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.
6. But as they opposed and spoke injuriously, he shook his clothes, and said to them, Your blood be upon your own head: I am pure; from henceforth I will go to the nations.
7. And departing thence he came to the house of a certain man, by name Justus, who worshipped God, whose house adjoined the synagogue.