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 tent makers by trade, which happens to be how Paul makes a living too.

He probably makes tents Sunday to Thursday that 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 shake 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 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

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