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King James Version

Acts 18:1

After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Aquila and Priscilla;   Paul;   Priscilla;   Thompson Chain Reference - Athens;   Corinth;   Paul;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Corinth;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Achaia;   Aquila;   Corinth;   Corinthians, letters to the;   Dispersion;   Greece;   Mission;   Paul;   Synagogue;   Thessalonians, letters to;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Episcopacy;   Ordination;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Thessalonians, Epistles to the;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Corinth;   Thessalonians, the Epistles to the;   Timothy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Acts;   Church;   Corinth;   Greece;   Jews in the New Testament;   1 Corinthians;   2 Corinthians;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Athens;   Chronology of the New Testament;   Corinth;   Corinthians, Second Epistle to;   Power of the Keys;   Resurrection;   Thessalonians, Second Epistle to the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Family;   Nazirite;   Roads and Travel;   Roman Law in the Nt;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Athens ;   Corinth ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Corinth'ians, First Epistle to the,;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Corinth;   Melita;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Saul of Tarsus;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Corinth;   Corinthians, First Epistle to the;   Teach;   Thessalonians, the First Epistle of Paul to the;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Diaspora;  

Parallel Translations

Simplified Cowboy Version
Paul saddled up, left Athens, and headed for Corinth.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
After these things he left Athens and went to Corinth.
Legacy Standard Bible
After these things he departed Athens and went to Corinth.
Bible in Basic English
After these things, he went away from Athens, and came to Corinth.
Darby Translation
And after these things, having left Athens, he came to Corinth;
New King James Version
After these things Paul departed from Athens and went to Corinth.
Christian Standard Bible®
After this, he left Athens and went to Corinth,
World English Bible
After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
After these things, Paul departing from Athens, came to Corinth.
Weymouth's New Testament
After this he left Athens and came to Corinth.
King James Version (1611)
After these things, Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth,
Literal Translation
And after these things, departing from Athens, Paul came to Corinth.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
After that departed Paul fro Athens, and came to Corinthum,
Mace New Testament (1729)
After this Paul left Athens and arriv'd at Corinth:
THE MESSAGE
After Athens, Paul went to Corinth. That is where he discovered Aquila, a Jew born in Pontus, and his wife, Priscilla. They had just arrived from Italy, part of the general expulsion of Jews from Rome ordered by Claudius. Paul moved in with them, and they worked together at their common trade of tentmaking. But every Sabbath he was at the meeting place, doing his best to convince both Jews and Greeks about Jesus.
Amplified Bible
After this Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.
American Standard Version
After these things he departed from Athens, and came to Corinth.
Revised Standard Version
After this he left Athens and went to Corinth.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
After that Paul departed from Attens and came to Corinthu
Update Bible Version
After these things he departed from Athens, and came to Corinth.
Webster's Bible Translation
After these things, Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth;
Young's Literal Translation
And after these things, Paul having departed out of Athens, came to Corinth,
New Century Version
Later Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.
New English Translation
After this Paul departed from Athens and went to Corinth.
Berean Standard Bible
After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.
Contemporary English Version
Paul left Athens and went to Corinth,
Complete Jewish Bible
After this, Sha'ul left Athens and went to Corinth,
English Standard Version
After this Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.
Geneva Bible (1587)
After these thinges, Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinthus,
George Lamsa Translation
THEN Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth;
Hebrew Names Version
After these things Sha'ul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth.
International Standard Version
After this Paulhe">[fn] left Athens and went to Corinth.
Etheridge Translation
AND when Paulos had gone forth from Athinos, he came unto Kurinthos.
Murdock Translation
And when Paul departed from Athens, he went to Corinth.
New Living Translation
Then Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.
New Life Bible
After that Paul went from the city of Athens and came to the city of Corinth.
English Revised Version
After these things he departed from Athens, and came to Corinth.
New Revised Standard
After this Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
After these things, withdrawing from Athens, he came unto Corinth;
Douay-Rheims Bible
After these things, departing from Athens, he came to Corinth.
Lexham English Bible
After these things he departed from Athens and went to Corinth.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
After these thynges, Paul departed fro Athens, & came to Corinth,
Easy-to-Read Version
Later, Paul left Athens and went to the city of Corinth.
New American Standard Bible
After these events Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.
Good News Translation
After this, Paul left Athens and went on to Corinth.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Aftir these thingis Poul yede out of Atenes, and cam to Corinthie.

Contextual Overview

1 After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth; 2 And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them. 3 And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers. 4 And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks. 5 And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ. 6 And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean; from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

departed: Acts 17:32, Acts 17:33

Corinth: Acts 19:1, 1 Corinthians 1:2, 2 Corinthians 1:1, 2 Corinthians 1:23, 2 Timothy 4:20

Reciprocal: Matthew 10:11 - inquire Acts 17:15 - Athens Romans 15:19 - so that 1 Corinthians 2:1 - when 1 Corinthians 14:36 - came 2 Corinthians 11:7 - in 2 Corinthians 11:26 - journeyings 1 Thessalonians 1:7 - in 1 Thessalonians 3:6 - when

Cross-References

Genesis 12:7
And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the Lord , who appeared unto him.
Genesis 15:1
After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
Genesis 17:22
And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.
Genesis 18:1
And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
Genesis 18:3
And said, My Lord , if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:
Genesis 26:2
And the Lord appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:
Genesis 48:3
And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
Exodus 4:1
And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The Lord hath not appeared unto thee.
2 Chronicles 1:7
In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him, Ask what I shall give thee.
Acts 7:2
And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

After these things,.... The Arabic version renders it, "after these words, or discourses"; after the apostle's disputation with the philosophers, and his sermon in the Areopagus, the effects of which are before related:

Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth; the metropolis of Achaia, or Peloponnesus. The city was formerly called Ephyra, from Ephyra p, the daughter of Oceanus, and had its name of Corinth from Corinthus, the son of Maratho, who repaired it when destroyed; or, as others say, from Corinthus the son of Pelops, others of Orestes, and others of Jupiter: though more probably it was so called from the multitudes of whores in this place, as if it was

κοραι ενθα, "corai entha, here are girls, or whores"; for in the temple of Venus there were no less than a thousand whores provided, to be prostituted to all comers thither; :-. It was situated between two great seas, the Aegean and Ionean; hence q Horace calls it Bimaris: it had a very strong tower, built on a high mount, called Acrocorinthus, from whence these two seas might be seen, and where was the fountain Pirene, sacred to the Muses: the city was about sixty furlongs, or seven miles and a half, from the shore r: it was a city that abounded in riches and luxury. Florus s calls it the head of Achaia, and the glory of Greece; and Cicero t, the light of all Greece: it was in time so much enlarged, and became so famous, that it was little inferior to Rome itself, on which account it grew proud and haughty; and using the Roman ambassadors with some degree of insolence, who were sent into Greece, on some certain occasion, first Metellus, and then Mummius, were sent against it, which latter took it, and burnt it; and the city then abounding with images and statues of gold, silver, and brass, were melted down together in the fire, and made what was afterwards called the Corinthian brass, which became so famous, and is often spoken of in history u: but Julius Caesar, moved with the commodious situation of the place, rebuilt it w, and it became a colony of the Romans, as Pliny x and Mela y both call it: and so it was at this time when the apostle was there. After this it came into the hands of the Venetians, from whom it was taken by Mahomet, the second son of Amurath, in the year 1458 z; but is now again in the hands of the Venetians; and that and the country about it are called the Morea. And as the Gospel was to be preached to the worst of sinners, among whom God's chosen ones lay, the apostle was directed to come hither; and it appears by the sequel, that God had much people here, even more than at Athens, among the wise and learned.

p Vellei Patercull Hist. Rom. l. 1. Pausanias, Corinthiaca, sive l. 2. p. 85. q Carmin. l. 1. Ode 7. r Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 4. c. 4. s Hist. Rom. l. 2. c. 16. t Pro Lege Manilia Orat. 13. p. 636. u Florus, ib. w Pausauias, Corinthiaca, sive l. 2. p. 85, 89. x Nat. Hist. l. 4. c. 4. y De Situ Orbis, l. 2. c. 10. z Petav. Rationar. Temp. par. 1. p. 476.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

After these things - After what occurred at Athens, as recorded in the previous chapter.

Came to Corinth - Corinth was the capital of Achaia, called anciently Ephyra, and was seated on the isthmus which divides the Peloponnesus from Attica. The city itself stood on a little island; it had two ports, Lecheeum on the west, and Cenchrea on the east. It was one of the most populous and wealthy cities of Greece, and at the same time one of the most luxurious, effeminate, ostentatious, and dissolute. Lasciviousness here was not only practiced and allowed, but was consecrated by the worship of Venus; and no small part of the wealth and splendor of the city arose from the offerings made by licentious passion in the very temples of this goddess. No city of ancient times was more profligate. It was the Paris of antiquity; the seat of splendor, and show, and corruption. Yet even here, notwithstanding all the disadvantages of splendor, gaiety, and dissoluteness, Paul entered on the work of rearing a church; and here he was eminently successful. The two epistles which he afterward wrote to this church show the extent of his success; and the well-known character and propensities of the people will account for the general drift of the admonitions and arguments in those epistles. Corinth was destroyed by the Romans 146 years before Christ; and during the conflagration several metals in a fused state, running together, produced the composition known as Corinthian brass. It was afterward restored by Julius Caesar, who planted in it a Roman colony. It soon regained its ancient splendor, and relapsed into its former dissipation and licentiousness. Paul arrived there in 52 or 53 ad.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XVIII.

Paul, leaving Athens, comes to Corinth, meets with Aquila and

Priscilla, and labours with them at tent-making, 1-3.

He preaches, and proves that Jesus was the Christ, 4, 5.

The Jews oppose and blaspheme; and he purposes to go to the

Gentiles, 6.

Justus, Crispus, and several of the Corinthians believe, 7, 8.

Paul has a vision, by which he is greatly comforted, 9, 10.

He continues there a year and six months, 11.

Gallio being deputy of Achaia, the Jews make insurrection

against Paul, and bring him before the deputy, who dismisses

the cause; whereupon the Jews commit a variety of outrages,

12-17.

Paul sails to Syria, and from thence to Ephesus, where he

preaches, 18-20.

He leaves Ephesus-goes to Caesarea, visits Antioch, Galatia,

and Phrygia, 21-23.

Account of Apollos and his preaching, 24-28.

NOTES ON CHAP. XVIII.

Verse Acts 18:1. Paul departed from Athens — How long he stayed here, we cannot tell; it is probable it could not be less than three months; but, finding that the Gospel made little progress among the Athenians, he resolved to go to Corinth.

CORINTH was situated on the isthmus that connects Peloponnesus to Attica; and was the capital of all Achaia, or Peloponnesus. It was most advantageously situated for trade; for, by its two ports, the Lecheum and Cenchreae, it commanded the commerce both of the Ionian and AEgean Sea. It was destroyed by the Romans under Mummius, about one hundred and forty-six years before Christ, in their wars with Attica; but was rebuilt by Julius Caesar, and became one of the most considerable cities of Greece. Like other kingdoms and states, it has undergone a variety of revolutions: from the oppressive and destructive government of the Turks it has been lately restored to that of the Greeks; but it is greatly reduced, its whole population amounting only to between thirteen and fourteen thousand souls. It is about 46 miles east of Athens, and 342 S.W. of Constantinople. Its public buildings were very superb; and there the order called the Corinthian Order, in architecture, took its rise.


 
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