The Skeptics Annotated Bible (888 page)

5 And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia,
Paul
was pressed in the spirit, and
testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.

(18.5)
“Paul … testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.”

6 And
when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.

(18.6) “When they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean; from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.”

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 in this city.

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

12 And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia,
the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul
, and brought him to the judgment seat,

(18.12)
“The Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul.”

13 Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.

14 And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:

15 But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.

16 And he drave them from the judgment seat.

17 Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things.

18 And
Paul
after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila;
having shorn his head
in Cenchrea:
for he had a vow
.

(18.18) ”Paul … having shorn his head … for he had a vow” The first vow-induced shaved head.

19 And he came to Ephesus, and left them there: but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.

20 When they desired him to tarry longer time with them, he consented not;

21 But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.

22 And when he had landed at Caesarea, and gone up, and saluted the church, he went down to Antioch.

23 And after he had spent some time there, he departed, and went over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples.

24 And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.

25 This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John.

26 And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and
Priscilla
had heard, they took him unto them, and
expounded unto him the way of God
more perfectly.

(18.26) “Priscilla … expounded unto him the way of God.”
454 Can women be church leaders?

27 And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped them much which had believed through grace:

28 For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.

(19.1-6) Paul introduces the Corinthians to the Holy Ghost and immediately they begin to speak in tongues and prophesy.

19
And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth,
Paul
having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,

2 He
said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.

(19.1-2)
“Paul … said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.”

3 And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John’s baptism.

4 Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.

5 When they heard this,
they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

(19.5)
“They were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.”
414 In whose name is baptism to be performed?

6 And
when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.

(19.6)
“When Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.”

7 And all the men were about twelve.

8 And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.

9 But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in
the school of one Tyrannus.

(19.9)
“The school of one Tyrannus”
The first (and only) school mentioned in the Bible.

10 And this continued
by the space of two years
; so that
all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus
, both Jews and Greeks.

(19.10)
“By the space of two years … all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus.”
After only two years of preaching, everyone in Asia had heard the word of the Lord!