Acts 18:1

Acts 18: 1 says, After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth; Paul is in Corinth, having left Athens.  Paul did not just sit back and wait for them.  He continued to preach the gospel, again first in the synagogues.  Verse two adds, 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.  When Paul got to Corinth, he met a Jew named Aquilla, born in Pontus, and recently come from Italy with his wife, Priscilla.  They had left Italy because Claudius had ordered the Jews to leave Rome.  We have little experience in having to be uprooted from our homes and leave the country, but millions today face that way of life.  We need to have a Christ like compassion for them. Paul himself was homeless at this time, but since Aquilla and he were both tentmakers,  Verse three continues, And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.  Paul stayed with Priscilla and him.  Today, we may have an opportunity to have a travelling evangelist need to stay with us, and if so, hopefully we will welcome him.  As he usually did, Verse four states, And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks. Paul went to the synagogue every Sabbath and persuaded with the Jews.  Verse five adds, And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.  Silas and Timothy rejoined him there. They were still a team, even though they had been separated for a time.  After Silas and Timothy joined him, Paul was pressed by the Spirit and testified that Jesus was the Christ.  When the Spirit presses us to an action, we must respond, whether what we are led to do will be popular or not.  Verse six continues, 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. In Paul's case, it wasn't popular.  It says they opposed him and blasphemed.  Paul shook his raiment and told them their blood was on their hands, since he had proclaimed the gospel to them, and they didn't believe.  If we are faithful in witnessing to the lost and they don't believe, their blood is on their own hands.  Paul changed his emphasis from the Jews to the Gentiles. Verse seven concludes, 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.  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.