First Option - First Reading: Acts 18:9-18

⁹ And the Lord said to Paul one night in a vision, “Do not be afraid, but speak and do not be silent;
¹⁰ for I am with you, and no man shall attack you to harm you; for I have many people in this city.”
¹¹ And he stayed a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
¹² But when Gallio was proconsul of Acha’ia, the Jews made a united attack upon Paul and brought him before the tribunal,
¹³ saying, “This man is persuading men to worship God contrary to the law.”
¹⁴ But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of wrongdoing or vicious crime, I should have reason to bear with you, O Jews;
¹⁵ but since it is a matter of questions about words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves; I refuse to be a judge of these things.”
¹⁶ And he drove them from the tribunal.
¹⁷ And they all seized Sos’thenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the tribunal. But Gallio paid no attention to this.
¹⁸ After this Paul stayed many days longer, and then took leave of the brethren and sailed for Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aq’uila. At Cen’chre-ae he cut his hair, for he had a vow.