"For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city." [Sidenote: In the House of Justus.] When Paul left the synagogue, he held meetings in a house that "joined hard to the synagogue;" that is, it was perhaps next to it. Here Paul and his two companions continued preaching. This so exasperated the Jews that they concluded to try to get Paul either expelled or punished. [Sidenote: Before Gallio.] Now it so happened that just at that time a new governor was appointed over Achaia. His name was Gallio, and he was known as a very "kind and gentle man." Thinking he would be easily influenced, the Jews had Paul arrested, and dragged him before the "judgment seat," saying falsely, "This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law." Paul arose, or beckoned some way that he desired to answer the charge; but Gallio stopped him, and addressing the Jews, said: "If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you; but if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters." And he drove them from his presence. [Sidenote: Persecutors Punished.] So Paul was not harmed, just as the Lord promised. But the Jews were; for the Greeks took their leader and whipped him even before the "judgment seat." Paul remained in Corinth one year and a half, and established there a strong church. Then, as the time for the Passover at Jerusalem was drawing near, he bade goodby to the Saints; and taking Aquila and Priscilla, Silas and Timothy, his faithful friends and companions, he set sail for Ephesus, thence to Caesarea, and Jerusalem. Footnotes: 1. I Thess. 3:1. 2. Weed. 3. Read and explain sermon Acts 17:22-31. 4. I Cor. 2:3. 5. II Thes. 3:1-2. LESSON 33 PAUL'S THIRD MISSIONARY JOURNEY FROM ANTIOCH TO EPHESUS "No man taketh this honor unto himself but he that is called of God as was Aaron." [Sidenote: A Promise.] When Paul stopped off at Ephesus on his way to Jerusalem, as mentioned in the previous lesson, the Jews to whom he preached asked him "to tarry a longer time with them." Not being able to do so, he promised them to "return again if God will." This promise, as we shall see, Paul literally fulfilled. [Sidenote: Salutes the Church.] Whether he arrived in Jerusalem in time to attend the Passover we do not know. In fact we are led to infer that he did not, for all that we know of this visit is that he "saluted the church," and went down to Antioch. [Sidenote: Beginning of Third Journey.]