other · 51 · Corinth
Paul stayed eighteen months at Corinth. Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed with his whole household — one of the very few people Paul says he baptised with his own hands — and the opposition brought Paul before the tribunal. Gallio would not hear it: if it were wrongdoing or vicious crime he would have reason to listen, but since it is a matter of words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves. Then the crowd seized Sosthenes, the next ruler of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the tribunal, and Gallio paid no attention to any of it. The scene matters far beyond Corinth. A rescript of Claudius found at Delphi names Gallio as proconsul of Achaia and can be dated within a year, which fixes this hearing to 51 or 52 — and almost every other date in this dataset's first century is reckoned outward from that stone. It is the closest thing the apostolic age has to a calendar.
To have Paul convicted of persuading people to worship contrary to the law.
A dismissal, a beating the proconsul ignored, and the one fixed date in first-century church chronology.