8. Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were immersed.
9. The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, “Don’t be afraid, but speak and don’t be silent;
10. for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city.”
11. He lived there a year and six months, teaching the word of God amongst them.
12. But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgement seat,
13. saying, “This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.”
14. But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked crime, you Jews, it would be reasonable that I should bear with you;
15. but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don’t want to be a judge of these matters.”
16. So he drove them from the judgement seat.