1 After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth; (Acts 18:1 KJV)
William Burkitt’s Commentary
The foregoing chapter acquainted us with the small success which St. Paul’s ministry had at Athens: upon his preaching about Jesus and the resurrection there, the philosophers and wise men mocked and derided him. If natural dispositions and abilities had fitted men for grace, we might have expected the greatest number of converts at Athens, where many were mockers, but very few believers.
Hereupon Paul leaves Athens, and goes to Corinth, a famous city in Achaia; where he meets with more encouragement and better success; for here he gathers a famous church, to which he wrote two epistles under the titles of the First and the Second Epistle to the Corinthians.