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Acts 18:8 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 8. 8And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.
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Role in This Section
Reports synagogue ruler Crispus and many Corinthians believing and being baptized.
Read It With
- Acts 18:5–18:11
Read Acts 18:8 with 18:5–18:11. In isolation, this contribution—reports synagogue ruler Crispus and many Corinthians believing and being baptized—can be mistaken for the scene's whole claim, detached from its speaker or narrator, or separated from its outcome. The complete unit establishes: Silas and Timothy arrive, Paul intensifies testimony, leaves the synagogue after opposition, moves next door to Titius Justus, sees Crispus's household believe, receives reassurance, and teaches for eighteen months.
Why It Needs Context
Reports synagogue ruler Crispus and many Corinthians believing and being baptized. Its responsible force depends on the full sequence, speaker, narrator framing, and outcome of Acts 18:5–18:11; it is connective evidence rather than a complete standalone teaching.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Acts 18:5–18:11 — Opposition redirects Paul's Corinthian witnessSources used for this context pointer
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 18:5–18:11, 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 18:5-18:11
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