Acts 18

Acts 18:3

And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought; for by their occupation they were tentmakers.

And, because he was of the same craft of tent-making, which he had learned, and (though formerly a Pharisee and now an Apostle by profession, and by privilege a Citizen of Rome) practised for his own necessary maintenance, as one that would not, in those tender beginnings, charge the Church; nor, in this holy care and frugality, be gone beyond by the false apostles: he abode with them, and wrought in their trade.

Acts 18:18

Having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow.

Having purposely so far conformed himself to the Law of Moses, as to shave his head upon a vow made to God, and to be performed by him at Jerusalem; that, by this means, he might win the weak Jews; in that they should see he was not, as was suggested, an enemy and despiser of the Law, but one, that was willing to observe it for the time, till those ceremonies, which were dead with Christ, might also be safely and decently buried.