Reading for May 23rd

Read Acts 18.1-17
In 18.1-19.41: The mission in Corinth and Ephesus.
In verse 2: Aquila and Priscilla appear as partners in ministry with Paul in many contexts (18.18, 26; Rom 16.3; 1 Cor 16.19; 2 Tim 4.19).
Claudius's edict expelling the Jews from Rome is dated around 49 CE.
In verse 3: Like rabbis and philosophers who worked with their hands ( 1Thess 2.9; 2 Thess 3.6-8; 1 Cor 4.12; 9.6), they practiced their trade of tentmaking to avoid becoming a burden to their hearers.
In verse 5: The crucial message remains that Jesus is the messiah (see 2.31-32; 3.18-20; 10.38-43; 18.28).
In verse 6: To shake the dust from his clothes is a prophetic act of judgment (Lk 10.11; Acts 13.51), consistent with holding people responsible for their own lives or blood upon their heads (2 Sam 1.16; 1 Kings 2.33).
Paul's second threat to go to the Gentiles (13.46; 28.28) is also prophetic reproach, but he soon returns to a synagogue (18.19).
In verse 8: Crispus is probably the one mentioned by Paul in 1 Cor 1.14 as one of the few baptized.
In verses 9-10: The lord speaking in the vision must be the Lord Jesus, but perhaps through a messenger (9.10; 10.3; 16.9).
Do not be afraid ... I am with you is an assurance of divine presence (Isa 41.10;43.5; Jer 1.8, 19; Mt 28.20).
In verse 12: According to an inscription found in Corinth, Gallio was named proconsul by Emperor Claudius in lat 51 CE.
In verse 13; Their charge against Paul is not general sedition (16.20-21; 17.7) but violation of the law of Israel.
In verses 14-17 Gallio refuses to become involved in an intra-Jewish debate (24.20-22; 26.3).
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