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Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Acts by R F Weymouth
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again on that subject."
017:033 So Paul went away from them.
017:034 A few, however, attached themselves to him and believed,
among them being Dionysius a member of the Council,
a gentlewoman named Damaris, and some others.
018:001 After this he left Athens and came to Corinth.
018:002 Here he found a Jew, a native of Pontus, of the name of Aquila.
He and his wife Priscilla had recently come from Italy
because of Claudius's edict expelling all the Jews from Rome.
So Paul paid them a visit;
018:003 and because he was of the same trade--that of tent-maker--
he lodged with them and worked with them.
018:004 But, Sabbath after Sabbath, he preached in the synagogue
and tried to win over both Jews and Greeks.
018:005 Now at the time when Silas and Timothy came down from
Macedonia, Paul was preaching fervently and was solemnly
telling the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.
018:006 But upon their opposing him with abusive language,
he shook his clothes by way of protest, and said to them,
"Your ruin will be upon your own heads. I am not responsible:
in future I will go among the Gentiles."
018:007 So he left the place and went to the house of a person
called Titius Justus, a worshipper of the true God.
His house was next door to the synagogue.
018:008 And Crispus, the Warden of the synagogue, believed in the Lord,
and so did all his household; and from time to time many of
the Corinthians who heard Paul believed and received baptism.
018:009 And, in a vision by night, the Lord said to Paul, "Dismiss
your fears: go on speaking, and do not give up.
018:010 I am with you, and no one shall attack you to injure you;
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