Aquila and Priscilla tentmakers

The Acts of the Apostles introduce them at Corinth: Aquila, a Jew of Pontus, and his wife Priscilla had just been expelled from Rome by Claudius's edict against the Jews, around the year 49. Paul, who followed the same trade — tentmaking — settled with them and worked there with his hands. They followed him to Ephesus, where they took the preacher Apollos aside to expound the faith to him more exactly, and reappear at Rome in the epistle to the Romans, which greets "the church that meets in their house". Paul writes that they risked their necks for him. They are among the few named couples of the New Testament, and Priscilla is most often named before her husband — a detail the ancient commentators noticed and debated.