Acts 18:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And Crispus,— St. Paul's labours in the synagogue had not been without some success; for Crispus, one of the rulers of the synagogue, embraced Christianity with his whole family; and afterwards manyother of the Corinthians, when they heard the Christian doctrine and the evidences of it, embraced the gospel, and were baptized, and were no doubt truly converted to God. His teaching so nigh the synagogueinthehouse of an uncircumcised Gentile, and his converting through grace and receiving the uncircumcised Gentiles into a full communion with the Jewish Christians, exasperated the unbelieving Jews, whichmight perhaps have discouraged even St. Paul himself; and as he had already planted a considerable church in that city, he might possibly begin to think of leaving the place, as having little expectation of bringing in any considerable addition to the number of converts which, under the divine blessing, he had hitherto made there. But to prevent his departure, and to encourage him in his work, the Lord Jesus himself appeared to him in a vision by night. I have much people in this city, Acts 18:10 means all those who would yield to be saved by grace, whatever their tempers and dispositions then were. See 1 Corinthians 9:11.