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Ac 18:3 King James And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
tentmakers--manufacturers, probably, of those hair-cloth tents supplied by the goats of the apostle's native province, and hence, as sold in the markets of the Levant, called cilicium. Every Jewish youth, whatever the pecuniary circumstances of his parents, was taught some trade (see on Luk 2:42), and Paul made it a point of conscience to work at that which he had probably been bred to, partly that he might not be burdensome to the churches, and partly that his motives as a minister of Christ might not be liable to misconstruction. To both these he makes frequent reference in his Epistles.
 
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42 And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast.
9 Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
34 Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
9 And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.
10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
8 For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.
9 (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.
8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
12 And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
34 Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
3 I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.