Aquila & Priscilla: Serving Jesus Together

When we talk about marriage, we tend to focus on what happens between a husband and wife. Sometimes we leave out what can happen through a husband and wife, how God can use them as a couple, how God can work through them to be a blessing, as they serve together. That is what we see in Acts 18 with a couple who worked with Paul: a woman named Priscilla and her husband, Aquila. Together they had a major impact on the early church.

Priscilla and Aquila were Jewish people from Pontus (modern-day Turkey). At some point they migrated to Rome. While they were there, Jewish-background Christians began sharing the Gospel of Jesus in the Jewish synagogues – and it caused an uproar. Emperor Claudius’s solution was to deport all the Jews from Rome, and Priscilla and Aquila had to move.

The story is that Paul the Apostle and his mission team were also taking the Gospel to places that have never heard the name of Jesus before. They arrived in the major city of Corinth. As Priscilla and Aquila fled to Corinth, the Lord would cause their paths to cross the path of Paul, most likely in the local synagogue.

Please find Acts 18:1-26.