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 ^g2and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” ^h

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

³“Then what baptism were you baptized with?” he asked them.

“With John’s baptism,” they replied. ^j

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

⁵When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. ⁶And when Paul had laid his hands on ^mthem, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began to speak in other languages and to prophesy. ⁿ⁷Now there were about 12 men in all.

In the Lecture Hall of Tyrannus

⁸Then he entered the synagogue and spoke boldly over a period of three months, engaging in discussion and trying to persuade them about the things of the kingdom of God. ^o9But when some became hardened and would not believe, slandering the Way in front of the crowd, he withdrew from them and met separately with the disciples, conducting discussions every day in the lecture hall of Tyrannus. ^p10And this went on for two years, so that all the inhabitants of Asia, both Jews and Greeks, ^qheard the message about the Lord. ^r

Demonism Defeated at Ephesus

¹¹God was performing extraordinary miracles by Paul’s hands, ¹²so that even facecloths or work aprons ^sthat had touched his skin were brought to the sick, and the diseases left them, and the evil spirits came out of them. ^t