Acts 19:1–12

TWELVE DISCIPLES OF JOHN THE BAPTIST

19While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul traveled through the interior regions and came to Ephesus. He found some disciples^{n 2}and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?”^o

“No,” they told him, “we haven’t even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”^p

³“Into what then were you baptized?” he asked them.

“Into John’s baptism,” they replied.^q

⁴Paul said, “John baptized with a baptism of repentance,^r telling the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus.”^s

⁵When they heard this, they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus. ⁶And when Paul had laid his hands on^t them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began to speak in tongues^C and to prophesy.^{u 7}Now there were about twelve men in all.

IN THE LECTURE HALL OF TYRANNUS

⁸Paul entered the synagogue and spoke boldly over a period of three months, arguing and persuading them about the kingdom of God.^{v 9}But when some became hardened and would not believe, slandering the Way in front of the crowd, he withdrew from them, taking the disciples, and conducted discussions every day in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.^{w 10}This went on for two years, so that all the residents of Asia, both Jews and Greeks,^x heard the word of the Lord.^y

DEMONISM DEFEATED AT EPHESUS

¹¹God was performing extraordinary miracles by Paul’s hands, ¹²so that even facecloths or aprons^D that had touched his skin were brought to the sick, and the diseases left them, and the evil spirits came out of them.^z