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Paul came to Corinth from Athens and found a Jew named Aquila, lately come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome — and because they were of the same trade, he stayed with them and worked. The expulsion is dated to about 49 by Suetonius and Orosius, and it is one of the very few outside fixes anyone has on the chronology of Acts. What the couple do next is the interesting part. They move to Ephesus and correct Apollos there; a church meets in their house; they turn up again in Rome at the end of the letter, where Paul says they risked their necks for his life and that all the churches of the Gentiles thank them. Priscilla is named before her husband in four of the six places the New Testament names them, which is unusual enough that it has been remarked on since Chrysostom.
To find work and a lodging in a city where he arrived alone.
A household that turns up afterwards in Ephesus and in Rome, with a church meeting in it both times.