Acts 18:3

"He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,"

Key Reflection

In Acts 18:3, Luke introduces Aquila and Priscilla, a Jewish couple from Pontus who had recently migrated to Corinth following Emperor Claudius’s decree expelling Jews from Rome in A.D. 49. This act of expulsion created a diaspora among the Jewish community, dispersing them across various cities where they would encounter and engage with Christians like Paul, playing crucial roles in early Christian communities as they settled and established churches.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Verse 3. The same craft. Of the same trade, or occupation. And wrought. And worked at that occupation. Why he did it, the historian does not affirm; but it seems pretty evident that it was because he had no other means of maintenance. He also laboured for his own support in Ephesus, Ac 20:34 and also at Thessalonica, 2 Th 3:9,10. The apostle was not ashamed of honest industry for a livelihood; nor did he deem it any disparagement that a minister of the gospel should labour with his own hands. For by their occupation. By their trade; that is, they had been brought up to this business. Paul had been designed originally for a lawyer, and had been brought up at the feet of Gamaliel.

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