Paul, having stayed after this many more days, took his leave of the brothers,† and sailed from there for Syria, together with Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Acts 18:18 in context
Acts 18:15–21
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but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don’t want to be a judge of these matters.”
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So he drove them from the judgment seat.
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Then all the Greeks seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. Gallio didn’t care about any of these things.
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Paul, having stayed after this many more days, took his leave of the brothers,† and sailed from there for Syria, together with Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow.
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He came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself entered into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.
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When they asked him to stay with them a longer time, he declined;
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but taking his leave of them, he said, “I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you if God wills.” Then he set sail from Ephesus.
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- The word for “brothers” here and where the context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”
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