11 So he [a]continued there a year and six months, and taught the word of God among them.

12 [b]Now when Gallio was deputy of [c]Achaia, the Jews arose with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat,

13 Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God otherwise than the Law appointeth.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 18:11 Word for word, sat, whereupon they in former time, took the name of their Bishop’s seat: but Paul sat, that is, continued teaching the word of God: and this kind of seat belongeth nothing to them which never saw their seats with a mind to teach in them.
  2. Acts 18:12 The wicked are never weary of evil doing, but the Lord mocketh their endeavors marvelously.
  3. Acts 18:12 That is, of Greece, yet the Romans did not call him Deputy of Greece, but of Achaia, because the Romans brought the Greeks into subjection by the Achaians, which in those days were Princes of Greece, as Pausanias recordeth.

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