10. I am with you. No one will hurt you because many of my people are in this city.”
11. Paul stayed there for a year and a half, teaching God’s word to the people.
12. Gallio became the governor of the country of Southern Greece. At that time, some of the Jews came together against Paul and took him to the court.
13. They said to Gallio, “This man is teaching people to worship God in a way that is against our law!”
14. Paul was about to say something, but Gallio spoke to the Jews. Gallio said, “I would listen to you Jews if you were complaining about a crime or some wrong.
15. But the things you are saying are only questions about words and names—arguments about your own law. So you must solve this problem yourselves. I don’t want to be a judge of these things!”
16. Then Gallio made them leave the court.
17. Then they all grabbed Sosthenes. (Sosthenes was now the leader of the synagogue.) They beat him there before the court. But this did not bother Gallio.