Passage of the Day - January 4, 2011

Acts 18:1-5

 ¹After these things he left Athens and went to Corinth.

 ²And he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, having recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. He came to them,

 ³and because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them and they were working, for by trade they were tent-makers.

 ⁴And he was reasoning in the synagogue every Sabbath and trying to persuade Jews and Greeks.

 ⁵But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul began devoting himself completely to the word, solemnly testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

We can’t properly read verse 3 without reading verse 5.  Paul’s tent making in Corinth was only for a season.  He endured much disheartening persecution in Thessalonica and he was without Timothy and Silas.  The spreading of the gospel is very draining, especially when facing persecution.  Since Paul’s support system wasn’t there, he dialed it back a bit until Timothy and Silas arrived.

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