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Acts 18:4 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 4. 4And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.
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Quick Meaning
Reports Sabbath synagogue reasoning aimed at Jews and Greeks.
Read It With
- Acts 18:1–18:4
Acts 18:4 reports Sabbath synagogue reasoning aimed at Jews and Greeks; within Acts 18:1–18:4, the controlling movement is that Paul meets Jewish refugees Aquila and Priscilla after Claudius's expulsion order, shares their trade and home, and reasons in the synagogue each Sabbath.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Reports Sabbath synagogue reasoning aimed at Jews and Greeks. This precise contribution belongs inside “Paul works with Aquila and Priscilla in Corinth” because Paul meets Jewish refugees Aquila and Priscilla after Claudius's expulsion order, shares their trade and home, and reasons in the synagogue each Sabbath.
What Remains True
Because Acts 18:4 reports Sabbath synagogue reasoning aimed at Jews and Greeks, faithful witness must preserve the verse's speaker, narrated setting, people affected, and the full movement of Acts 18:1–18:4 before drawing an enduring claim.
How It Can Shape Life
- For Acts 18:4, first identify this verse role—reports Sabbath synagogue reasoning aimed at Jews and Greeks; then explain the contextual meaning in Acts 18:1–18:4; preserve the proportionate truth about accountable witness; finally apply this boundary: The scene does not excuse anti-Jewish expulsion, romanticize displacement, or rank paid work against ministry.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Acts 18:1–18:4 — Paul works with Aquila and Priscilla in CorinthSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and unit coverage.
Exact location: Acts 18:1–18:4, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and punctuation control, without pretending one edition is a complete apparatus.
Exact location: SBLGNT official text, Acts 18:1-18:4
Open the Acts Greek text file ↗Lexical and grammatical evidence
STEP Bible Data
Tyndale House Cambridge
Tyndale House Cambridge, repository snapshot verified 2026
Supports: Morphology and lexical cross-check for words explicitly discussed in this unit.
Exact location: STEP Bible Data, TAGNT rows for Acts 18:1-18:4
Open source ↗open translation and translator notes
NET Bible First Edition Notes: Acts
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-attached textual, translation, language, geography, chronology, and historical notes actually printed for the unit.
Exact location: NET Bible First Edition Acts PDF, printed pp. 2104-2205, exact tn/tc/sn entries attached to 18:1–18:4
Open source ↗