5. Now when Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul became wholly absorbed with proclaiming the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.
6. When they opposed him and reviled him, he protested by shaking out his clothes and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am guiltless! From now on I will go to the Gentiles!”
7. Then Paul left the synagogue and went to the house of a person named Titius Justus, a Gentile who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.
8. Crispus, the president of the synagogue, believed in the Lord together with his entire household, and many of the Corinthians who heard about it believed and were baptized.
9. The Lord said to Paul by a vision in the night, “Do not be afraid, but speak and do not be silent,
10. because I am with you, and no one will assault you to harm you, because I have many people in this city.”
11. So he stayed there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
12. Now while Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews attacked Paul together and brought him before the judgment seat,
13. saying, “This man is persuading people to worship God in a way contrary to the law!”
14. But just as Paul was about to speak, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of some crime or serious piece of villainy, I would have been justified in accepting the complaint of you Jews,