Acts 18:6-8
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
6 When they opposed him and reviled him, he shook out his garments[a] and said to them, “Your blood be on your heads! I am clear of responsibility. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”(A) 7 So he left there and went to a house belonging to a man named Titus Justus, a worshiper of God;[b] his house was next to a synagogue.(B) 8 Crispus,[c] the synagogue official,(C) came to believe in the Lord along with his entire household, and many of the Corinthians who heard believed and were baptized.
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- 18:6 Shook out his garments: a gesture indicating Paul’s repudiation of his mission to the Jews there; cf. Acts 28:17–31.
- 18:7 A worshiper of God: see note on Acts 8:26–40.
- 18:8 Crispus: in 1 Cor 1:14 Paul mentions that Crispus was one of the few he himself baptized at Corinth.
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