Episode 1509: Acts of the Apostles (Part 7, Ch 19-Paul)

In Episode 19, Priscilla described meeting Paul in Corinth after she and her husband Aquila had been expelled from Rome under Claudius. Their shared trade brought them together, but work soon became friendship and partnership in ministry. Priscilla remembered Paul arriving in weakness and uncertainty, while she and Aquila offered him work, stability, and companionship as people who understood what it meant to be uprooted and forced to begin again.

Their testimony showed how God could work through circumstances none of them would have chosen. Priscilla refused to call their expulsion from Rome good, but insisted that it did not determine what the rest of their lives would become. She and Aquila later traveled to Ephesus, where they privately instructed the gifted preacher Apollos more fully in the faith. Priscilla remembered him as someone who “loved truth more than he loved being right,” demonstrating that maturity requires not only the willingness to teach others but the humility to remain teachable ourselves.

Varro focused on something increasingly important to his case: Paul could leave and the movement continued. Communities remained, Priscilla and Aquila taught Apollos, and Apollos taught others. Even expelling believers simply carried the message somewhere else. Priscilla’s life offered a quieter devotional lesson: faith does not guarantee that our plans will remain intact, but disrupted plans do not mean God has nothing left to do with our lives.