Acts 18:12
But when Gallio became governor of Achaia, the Jews rose up together against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat;
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11Paul lived there for a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
13they said, “This man persuades people to worship God contrary to the law.”
Cross References
John 19:13When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down in the judgment seat in a place called “The Pavement,” but in Hebrew, “Gabbatha.”
Acts 13:12After the proconsul saw what had happened, he believed, because he was astonished at the teaching about the Lord.
Acts 14:2But the Jews who were disobedient stirred up the minds of the Gentiles and made them bitter against the brothers.
Acts 17:5But the unbelieving Jews, being moved with jealousy, took certain wicked men from the marketplace, gathered a crowd together, and set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they wanted to bring Paul and Silas out to the people.
Acts 18:16Gallio made them leave the judgment seat.
Acts 21:27When the seven days were almost finished, some Jews from Asia, seeing Paul in the temple, stirred up the whole crowd, and laid hands on him.
Matthew Henry on Acts 18:8-12
Paul Visits Corinth. 7 And he departed thence, and entered into a certain man's house, named Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue. 8 And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized. 9 Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace: 10 For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people… Read the whole commentary →