KJV King James Version
And 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.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Acts 18:2
And 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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BSB Berean Standard Bible
There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to visit them,
WEB World English Bible
He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,
ASV American Standard Version
And he found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome: and he came unto them;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and having found a certain Jew, by name Aquilas, of Pontus by birth, lately come from Italy, and Priscilla his wife—because of Claudius having directed all the Jews to depart out of Rome—he came to them,
Surrounding context — Acts 18
1 After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth;
2 And 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.
3 And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
4 And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.
5 And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews [that] Jesus [was] Christ.
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καὶG2532 · kaiandεὑρώνG2147 · ehuriskōto find/meetτιναG5100 · tisoneἸουδαῖονG2453 · IoudaiosJewὀνόματιG3686 · onomanameἈκύλαν,G207 · AkulasAquilaΠοντικὸνG4193 · Pontikosof PontusτῷG3588 · hothe/this/whoγένει,G1085 · genosfamily: descendantπροσφάτωςG4373 · prosphatōsrecentlyἐληλυθόταG2064 · erchomaito come/goἀπὸG575 · apoaway fromτῆςG3588 · hothe/this/whoἸταλίας,G2482 · ItaliaItalyκαὶG2532 · kaiandΠρίσκιλλανG4252 · PriskillaPriscillaγυναῖκαG1135 · gunēwomanαὐτοῦ,G846 · autosit/s/heδιὰG1223 · diathrough/because ofτὸG3588 · hothe/this/whoδιατεταχέναιG1299 · diatassōto directΚλαύδιονG2804 · KlaudiosClaudiusχωρίζεσθαιG5563 · chōrizōto separate/leaveπάνταςG3956 · pasallτοὺςG3588 · hothe/this/whoἸουδαίουςG2453 · IoudaiosJewἀπὸG575 · apoaway fromτῆςG3588 · hothe/this/whoῬώμης,G4516 · RhōmēRomeπροσῆλθενG4334 · proserchomaito come near/agreeαὐτοῖς·G846 · autosit/s/he
Cross-references
2 Timothy 4:19Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus.1 Corinthians 16:19The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.Romans 16:3-4Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus:Acts 11:28And 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.Acts 18:26And 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.Acts 18:18And Paul [after this] tarried [there] yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn [his] head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow.Acts 2:9Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,1 Peter 1:1Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
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