¹³Some Jews who travelled round and drove out evil spirits also tried to use the name of the Lord Jesus to do this. They said to the evil spirits, “I command you in the name of Jesus, whom Paul preaches.” ¹⁴Seven brothers, who were the sons of a Jewish High Priest named Sceva, were doing this.

¹⁵But the evil spirit said to them, “I know Jesus, and I know about Paul; but you—who are you?”

¹⁶The man who had the evil spirit in him attacked them with such violence that he overpowered them all. They ran away from his house, wounded and with their clothes torn off. ¹⁷All the Jews and Gentiles who lived in Ephesus heard about this; they were all filled with fear, and the name of the Lord Jesus was given greater honour. ¹⁸Many of the believers came, publicly admitting and revealing what they had done. ¹⁹Many of those who had practiced magic brought their books together and burnt them in public. They added up the price of the books, and the total came to 50,000 silver coins.^b ²⁰In this powerful way the word of the Lord^c kept spreading and growing stronger.

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Footnotes

bsilver coins: A silver coin was the daily wage of a rural worker (see Mt 20:2).
cIn this … Lord; or And so, by the power of the Lord, the message.