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Then the brothers immediately sent Paul off on his way to the sea, but Silas and Timothy remained there.

Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols.

for "‘In him we live and move and have our being'; as even some of your own poets have said, "‘For we are indeed his offspring.'

And he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. And he went to see them,

And when they opposed and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."

And he left there and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God. His house was next door to the synagogue.

Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, together with his entire household. And many of the Corinthians hearing Paul believed and were baptized.

But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If it were a matter of wrongdoing or vicious crime, O Jews, I would have reason to accept your complaint.

After this, Paul stayed many days longer and then took leave of the brothers and set sail for Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila. At Cenchreae he had cut his hair, for he was under a vow.

And when Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began speaking in tongues and prophesying.

so that even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were carried away to the sick, and their diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them.

And having sent into Macedonia two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.

And even some of the Asiarchs, who were friends of his, sent to him and were urging him not to venture into the theater.

Some of the crowd prompted Alexander, whom the Jews had put forward. And Alexander, motioning with his hand, wanted to make a defense to the crowd.

On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight.

But Paul went down and bent over him, and taking him in his arms, said, "Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him."

Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.

And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

being sorrowful most of all because of the word he had spoken, that they would not see his face again. And they accompanied him to the ship.

And coming to us, he took Paul's belt and bound his own feet and hands and said, "Thus says the Holy Spirit, ‘This is how the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.'"