Acts 18 - RSG Paul's Travels - God Vis Protection

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ACTS CHAPTER 18 - RESEARCH STUDY GUIDE

Paul's Travels - God's Vision of Protection

Acts 18:1-3 Paul in Corinth. Meets Jew - Aquila – wife Priscilla. (From Italy) Claudius exiles Jews from Rome.
Acts 18:4-6 Paul continues teaching Jews and Greeks.
They will not listen. He admonishes them for not believing.
Acts 18:7-8 Paul meets Justus devout Jew and Crispus chief ruler Synagogue. Believers Baptized including Corinthians
Acts 18:9-11 Paul's Vision, The Lord tells him of protection in this city. Be not afraid. Paul stays teaching 1 year and six months
Acts 18: 12-17 Paul in court due to insurrection by Jews. Gallio, deputy of Achaia, speaks and drives Jews from judgment seat. Greeks take Sosthenes, chief ruler of synagogue and beat him.
Acts 18: 18-21 Paul stays , then leaves going to Syria. Priscilla and Aquilia go with him to Ephesus. Paul teaches in the synagogue. Priscilla, and Aquila stay in Ephesus. Paul leaves to go to Jerusalem for a feast
Acts 18-22-23 Paul goes to Caesarea, Antioch, Galatia, Phrygia – Strengthening all the disciples
Acts 18: 24-28 Important disciple, Jew named Apollos , baptized by John, arrives to teach in Ephesus. Aquila and Priscilla teach him more, and he is a mighty speaker, convincing many Jews that Jesus is Christ






Acts 18:1-3 Paul in Corinth. Meets Jew - Aquila – wife Priscilla. (From Italy) Claudius exiles Jews from Rome.




1: After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth;
2: And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:)and came unto them.
3: And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.


Acts 18:4-6 Paul continues teaching Jews and Greeks.
They will not listen. He admonishes them for not believing.

4: And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.
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.
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.




Acts 18:7-8 Paul meets Justus devout Jew and Crispus chief ruler Synagogue. Believers Baptized including Corinthians


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.



Acts 18:9-11 Paul's Vision, The Lord tells him of protection in this city. Be not afraid. Paul stays teaching 1 year and six months.

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.


Acts 18: 12-17 Paul in court due to insurrection by Jews. Gallio, deputy of Achaia, speaks and drives Jews from judgment seat. Greeks take Sosthenes, chief ruler of synagogue and beat him.


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,
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.


Acts 18: 18-21 Paul stays , then leaves going to Syria. Priscilla and Aquilia go with him to Ephesus. Paul teaches in the synagogue. Priscilla, and Aquila stay in Ephesus. Paul leaves to go to Jerusalem for a feast


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.
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.



Acts 18-22-23 Paul goes to Caesarea, Antioch, Galatia, Phrygia – Strengthening all the disciples.


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.

Acts 18: 24-28 Important disciple, Jew named Apollos , baptized by John, arrives to teach in Ephesus. Aquila and Priscilla teach him more, and he is a mighty speaker, convincing many Jews that Jesus is Christ.


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.
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.

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Names In Acts 18

Paul
Jew - Aquila and wife Priscilla. (From Italy)
Claudius
Justus
Crispus (Chief ruler of the synagogue)
Gallio, deputy of Achaia
Sosthenes (chief ruler of synagogue)



Cities Mentioned or Visited In Acts 18

Corinth
Rome, Italy
Cenchrea
Syria
Ephesus
Jerusalem
Caesarea
Antioch
Galatia
Phrygia
Alexandria
Achaia,


Map Of Paul's Travels



Maps by Gordon Smith can be used without further permission. Please quote

www.ccel.org/bible/phillips/JBPhillips.htm

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EMPEROR TIBERIUS CLAUDIUS CAESAR AUGUSTUS GERMANICUS

Born August 1, the year 10 B.C.
Emperor of Rome from 41 A.C. to 54 A.C. Which was when he died.
Became Emperor of Rome after the assassination of Caligula.
Nero, his adopted son succeeds him as emperor.

Cities conquered: Thrace, Noricum, Pamphylia, Lycia, Judaea

His religious reforms were for a state religion, going against celebrations added by Caligula, and brought back lost festivals. He was against many of the newer religions, and it is said he threw the Jews out of Rome, and was uneasy about Christianity.

Emperor Claudius was afflicted. The cause of his ailment was often debated, but at this time, he was thought have Tourette syndrome. The cause of his death remains unknown, except that he was possibly poisoned.

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