2And 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.
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Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus.
Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus: …
The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.
And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.
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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)We do not find that Paul was much persecuted at Athens, nor that he was driven thence by any ill usage, as he was from those places where the Jews had or could make any interest; but this reception at Athens being cold, and little prospect of doing good there, he departed from Athens, leaving the care of those there who believed with Dionysius; and thence he came to Corinth, where he was now instr…
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