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Acts 18:5-8

When Silas and Timothy came from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself exclusively to preaching, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah. But when they opposed Paul and became abusive, he shook out his clothes in protest and said to them, 'Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.' Then Paul left the synagogue and went next door to the house of Titius Justus, a worshipper of God. Crispus, the synagogue leader, and his entire household believed in the Lord; and many of the Corinthians who heard Paul believed and were baptised. (NIVUK)

Paul came to Corinth as a tentmaker (Acts 18:1-3). Working in the market and living above the workshop with other tentmakers, Priscilla and Aquila, Paul learned the dynamics of a busy commercial city - very different from the ‘university mentality’ of Athens (Acts 18:1-3). Corinth was an international trading hub, lying in the isthmus between the Aegean Sea, and the Adriatic Sea. Linking the two was a seven-mile paved roadway, the ‘Diolkos’, where ships or cargoes were trundled overland on rollers by slaves - to avoid a dangerous long voyage around the Peloponnese peninsula. A lot of mo