First Reading
Acts 18:9-18
Read this as the first big movement of the day. Notice what God is doing, who is speaking, and what part of the story or teaching should stay with you.
9And the Lord said to Paul in the nights, by a vision: Do not fear, but speak; and hold not your peace,
10Because I am with you: and no man shall set upon you, to hurt you; for I have much people in this city.
11And he stayed there a year and six months, teaching among them the word of God.
12But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat,
13Saying: This man persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.
14And when Paul was beginning to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews: If it were some matter of injustice, or an heinous deed, OH Jews, I should with reason bear with you.
15But if they be questions of word and names, and of your law, look you to it: I will not be judge of such things.
16And he drove them from the judgment seat.
17And all laying hold on Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, beat him before the judgment seat; and Gallio cared for none of those things.
18But Paul, when he had stayed yet many days, taking his leave of the brothers and sisters, sailed from there into Syria (and with him Priscilla and Aquila), having shorn his head in Cenchrae: for he had a vow.