Acts 18:5,6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia Silas seems to have stayed a considerable time at Berea; but Timotheus, having come to the apostle while he was at Athens, and having been sent back by him to comfort and confirm the church at Thessalonica, now left that city to join Paul at Corinth; and in his way calling upon Silas at Berea, they travelled together to Corinth, where they found the apostle, and gave him the agreeable information that the Thessalonian brethren stood firm in the faith, bare the persecution of the unbelievers with exemplary fortitude, and entertained a grateful remembrance of him their spiritual father, 1 Thessalonians 3:5-6. These tidings, it seems, filled the apostle with joy, and encouraged him to deal more plainly with the Jews at Corinth than he had hitherto done. For he was pressed in spirit And the more probably from what Silas and Timotheus related; and testified to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ Confirming his testimony by arguments brought from the Scriptures, and by the miracles which he wrought. And when they opposed themselves To his doctrine; and blasphemed Jesus, by affirming that he was not the Christ, but an impostor; he shook his raiment To signify that from that time he would refrain from them, and that God would soon shake them off as unworthy to be numbered among his people; and said, Your blood That is, the guilt of your destruction; be upon your own heads: I am clean From it, agreeably to God's declaration, Ezekiel 33:2-9. By this wilful impenitence and unbelief, you are your own murderers; and, as God and man can testify that I have done all in my power to prevent so sad an event, I now desist from any further attempts of this kind; from henceforth While I continue in this city, leaving the synagogue, I will go and preach to the Gentiles Who will readily receive that gospel which you so ungratefully reject.