And found a certain Jew named (A)Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, and his wife Priscilla (because that [a]Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome) and he came unto them.

And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them and wrought (for their craft was to make tents.)

[b]And he disputed in the Synagogue every Sabbath day, and [c]exhorted the Jews, and the Grecians.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 18:2 Suetonius recordeth that Rome banished the Jews, because they were always at disquiet, and that by Christ’s means.
  2. Acts 18:4 The truth ought always to be freely uttered, yet notwithstanding the doctrine may be so moderated, as occasion of the profit that the people take thereby, shall require.
  3. Acts 18:4 Exhorted so that he persuaded, and so the word signifieth.

There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla,(A) because Claudius(B) had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to see them, and because he was a tentmaker as they were, he stayed and worked with them.(C) Every Sabbath(D) he reasoned in the synagogue,(E) trying to persuade Jews and Greeks.

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