Bema

Paul spent 18 months in Corinth before the Jews of the city charged him with breaking the law and brought him before Gallio at the city's place of judgment (bema). Standing on this platform, the proconsul dismissed the charges against Paul as a dispute of Jewish law and not of a criminal nature.

In Corinth Paul met Aquila and Priscilla, Jews recently expelled by Emperor Claudius from Rome . The three of these were tentmakers (or leather workers) and may have had their place of business in the city's commercial marketplace (agora).  This would have afforded Paul numerous occasions to speak with customers and passers-by of the resurrection of Christ.  Acts notes that Paul spent each Shabbat trying to persuade Jews and Greeks.

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