Acts 18

Acts 18
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Acts 18:27-19:6 on recto side in Papyrus 38, written about AD 250.
Book	Acts of the Apostles
Bible part	New Testament
Order in the Bible part	5
Category	Church history

Acts 18 is the eighteenth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the second missionary journey of Paul, together with Silas and Timothy, and the beginning of the third missionary journey. The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke composed this book as well as the Gospel of Luke.

The original text is written in Koine Greek and is divided into 28 verses. Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter are:

This chapter mentions the following places (in order of appearance):

This part of the second missionary journey of Paul took place in c. AD 50-52, based on the time when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia.

This chapter can be grouped:

Paul travelled from Athens to Corinth, a distance of about 82 km on modern roads.

Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus or Gallio was a Roman senator and brother of famous writer Seneca. According to this chapter, he dismissed the charge brought by the Jews against the Apostle Paul. () His behaviour on this occasion ("but Gallio cared for none of these things", v. 17) showed his disregard for Jewish sensitivities, and also the impartial attitude of Roman officials towards Christianity in its early days. Gallio's tenure can be fairly accurately dated to between 51-52 AD. The reference to proconsul Gallio in the Delphi Inscription, or Gallio Inscription (IG, VII, 1676; SIG, II, 801d; AD 52) provides an important marker for developing a chronology of the life of Apostle Paul by relating it to the trial of Paul in Achaea mentioned in this chapter. Therefore, the events of Acts 18 can be dated to this period. This is significant because it is the most accurately known date in the life of Paul.