¹³But some itinerant Jewish exorcists also attempted to pronounce the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “I adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches!” ¹⁴(Now seven sons of a certain Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this.) ¹⁵But the evil spirit answered and^* said to them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I am acquainted with, but who are you?” ¹⁶And the man who had the evil spirit^h leaped on them, subdued all of them, and^* prevailed against them, so that they ran away from that house naked and wounded. ¹⁷And this became known to all who lived in Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks, and fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was exalted. ¹⁸And many of those who had believed came, confessing and disclosing their practices, ¹⁹and many of those who practiced magic brought together their^* books and^* burned them^* up in the sight of everyone. And they counted up their value and found it was fifty thousand silver coins.ⁱ ²⁰In this way the word of the Lord was growing in power and was prevailing.

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Footnotes

*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“answered”) has been translated as a finite verb
hLiterally “in whom the evil spirit was”
*Here “and” is supplied because the two previous participles (“leaped” and “subdued”) have been translated as finite verbs
*Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“brought together”) has been translated as a finite verb
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
iLiterally “five ten thousands of silver coins”