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¹ After these thynges, Paul departed fro Athens, & came to Corinth,² And found a certaine Iewe, named Aquila, borne in Ponthus, lately come fro Italie with his wyfe Priscilla (because that Claudius had commaunded all Iewes to depart from Rome) and he came vnto them.³ And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought (for their craft was to make tentes)⁴ And he disputed in the synagogue euery Sabboth, and exhorted the Iewes and the Grekes.⁵ And when Silas and Timotheus were come fro Macedonia, Paul was constrayned by the spirite to testifie to the Iewes that Iesus was Christe.⁶ And when they sayde contrary, and blasphemed, he shoke his rayment, & said vnto them: Your blood be vpon your owne heades. From hencefoorth wyll I go blamelesse vnto the gentiles.

⁷ And he departed thence, and entred into a certaine mans house, named Iustus, a worshipper of God, whose house ioyned harde to the synagogue.⁸ And one Crispus the chiefe ruler of the synagogue beleued on the Lorde, with all his housholde: and many of the Corinthians hearyng, beleued, and were baptized.⁹ Then spake the Lorde to Paul in the nyght by a vision: Be not afrayde, but speake, and holde not thy peace:¹⁰ For I am with thee, and no man shal inuade thee to hurt thee. For I haue much people in this citie.¹¹ And he continued there a yere and sixe monethes, and taught the word of God among them.

¹² And when Gallio was the deputie of Achaia, the Iewes made insurrection with one accord against Paul, & brought hym to the iudgement seate,¹³ Saying: This felow counselleth men to worship God contrary to the lawe.¹⁴ And when Paul nowe was about to open his mouth, Gallio sayde vnto the Iewes: Yf it were a matter of wrong, or an euyll deede, O ye Iewes, reason woulde that I shoulde beare with you:¹⁵ But yf it be a question of wordes and names, or of your lawe, loke ye to it your selues: for I wyll be no iudge of such matters.¹⁶ And he draue them fro the iudgement seate.¹⁷ Then all the Grekes toke Softenes the chiefe ruler of ye synagogue, & smote hym before the iudgement seate: And Gallio cared for none of those thinges.

¹⁸ And Paul after this, taried there yet a good whyle, and then toke his leaue of the brethren, & sayled thence into Syria, (Aquila & Priscilla accompanying him) And he shore his head in Cenchrea, for he had a vowe.¹⁹ And he came to Ephesus, and left the there, but he hym selfe entred into the synagogue, & reasoned with ye Iewes.²⁰ When they desired him to tary longer tyme with them, he consented not:²¹ But bade them farewell, saying, I must needes at this feast that commeth be in Hierusalem: but I wyll returne agayne vnto you yf God wyll. And he sayled from Ephesus.²² And whe he was come vnto Cesarea, and ascended vp & saluted the Churche, he went to Antioche.²³ And whe he had taried there a while, he departed, and went ouer al the countrey of Galatia and Phrygia by order, strengthyng all the disciples.

²⁴ And a certaine Iewe, named Apollos, borne at Alexandria, came to Ephesus, an eloquent man, and myghtie in the scriptures.²⁵ The same was infourmed in the way of the Lorde, and spake feruently in the spirite, & taught diligently the thynges of the Lorde, and knewe but the baptisme of Iohn only.²⁶ And the same began to speake boldly in the synagogue. Whom when Aquila and Priscilla had hearde, they toke him vnto them, and expounded vnto him the way of God more perfectly.²⁷ And when he was disposed to go into Achaia, the brethre wrote, exhorting the disciples to receaue hym: Which when he was come, helped them much which had beleued through grace.²⁸ For he ouercame the Iewes myghtilye, and that openly, shewyng by the scriptures, that Iesus was Christe.