Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

Yesterday, we read Paul's letter to the Thessalonians, and today we jump back into his

second missionary journey. He leaves Athens and makes the two-day trip to Corinth. There, he meets

Aquila and Priscilla, a married couple who have just moved back from Italy because they were

forced out of Rome. They're tentmakers by trade, which happens to be how Paul makes a living too.

He probably makes tents Sunday to Thursday, then on Saturday he heads to the synagogue to do some

reasoning, as is his way. When Paul and Silas finally make it to Corinth, Paul is shaking out his tunic at the Corinthian Jews. You may remember that Jesus told the apostles to shake the dust off their feet in the towns of the people who rejected them. That's in Matthew 10. And if you were with us in the Old Testament, the prophet Nehemiah shook out his tunic for a similar

reason in Chapter 5.

This shaking out is a dismissive gesture. It's the, by Felicia, of the Bible. Paul has done all he can do. He shared the gospel with them, and they're outright rejecting it. So while he's in Corinth, he's going to focus on talking to the Gentiles there instead. What Jesus said about shaking the dust off and what Paul does here,

these actions are location specifically. He's going to focus on talking to the Gentiles there instead. What Jesus said about shaking the dust off and what Paul does here,

these actions are location-specific.

This isn't a dismissal of the Jews at large.

Even by the end of the chapter, other Jews have come to Christ.

But after Paul changes his focus to the Gentiles,

a lot of them turn to Christ too.

God speaks to him in a vision and encourages him to keep at it, because God will protect him and his work will bear fruit, because God has

plans to save a lot of people there. Getting this kind of encouragement from God about protection

usually means there's going to be some kind of threat to be protected from. As Paul sticks around

for a year and a half preaching the

gospel, the local Jews eventually bring an accusation against him, but the local governor

dismisses it and lets Paul go. God protects him just like he promised. After leaving Corinth,

he stops in at supercuts for a trim. This may seem like strange information to put in the Bible,

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