The Early Church

He made also of one blood every nation of men, to dwell upon all the face of the earth--having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings--

to seek the Lord, if perhaps they did feel after Him and find, --though, indeed, He is not far from each one of us,

for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.

`Being, therefore, offspring of God, we ought not to think the Godhead to be like to gold, or silver, or stone, graving of art and device of man;

the times, indeed, therefore, of the ignorance God having overlooked, doth now command all men everywhere to reform,

because He did set a day in which He is about to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom He did ordain, having given assurance to all, having raised him out of the dead.'

And having heard of a rising again of the dead, some, indeed, were mocking, but others said, `We will hear thee again concerning this;'

and so Paul went forth from the midst of them,

and certain men having cleaved to him, did believe, among whom is also Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman, by name Damaris, and others with them.

And after these things, Paul having departed out of Athens, came to Corinth,

and having found a certain Jew, by name Aquilas, of Pontus by birth, lately come from Italy, and Priscilla his wife--because of Claudius having directed all the Jews to depart out of Rome--he came to them,

and because of being of the same craft, he did remain with them, and was working, for they were tent-makers as to craft;

and he was reasoning in the synagogue every sabbath, persuading both Jews and Greeks.

And when both Silas and Timotheus came down from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the Spirit, testifying fully to the Jews Jesus the Christ;

and on their resisting and speaking evil, having shaken his garments, he said unto them, `Your blood is upon your head--I am clean; henceforth to the nations I will go on.'

And having departed thence, he went to the house of a certain one, by name Justus, a worshipper of God, whose house was adjoining the synagogue,

and Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue did believe in the Lord with all his house, and many of the Corinthians hearing were believing, and they were being baptized.

And the Lord said through a vision in the night to Paul, `Be not afraid, but be speaking and thou mayest be not silent;

because I am with thee, and no one shall set on thee to do thee evil; because I have much people in this city;'

and he continued a year and six months, teaching among them the word of God.

And Gallio being proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a rush with one accord upon Paul, and brought him unto the tribunal,

saying--`Against the law this one doth persuade men to worship God;'

and Paul being about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, `If, indeed, then, it was anything unrighteous, or an act of wicked profligacy, O Jews, according to reason I had borne with you,

but if it is a question concerning words and names, and of your law, look ye yourselves to it , for a judge of these things I do not wish to be,'

and he drave them from the tribunal;