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Aquila and Priscilla
How Aquila and Priscilla are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Aquila and Priscilla were married.
Aquila, a Jew of Pontus, and his wife Priscilla had left Rome when Claudius expelled the Jews. They worked, travelled and taught together.
a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla
Acts 18:2, King James Version
and with him Priscilla and Aquila
Acts 18:18, King James Version
whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them
Acts 18:26, King James Version
Where they cross: Acts 18:2-3
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
Acts 18:2-3
2And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.
3And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
Acts 18:18
18And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow.
Acts 18:26
26And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.
King James Version