Acts 19:1–12

Paul in Ephesus

¹Now it happened that while ^aApollos was at ^bCorinth, Paul passed through the ^cupper regions and came to ^dEphesus and found some disciples.

²And he said to them, “^aDid you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said to him, “No, ^bwe have not even heard if the Holy Spirit is being received.”

³And he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” And they said, “^aInto John’s baptism.”

⁴Then Paul said, “^aJohn baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people ^bto believe in Him who was coming after him, that is, in Jesus.”

⁵And when they heard this, they were ^abaptized ¹in the name of the Lord Jesus.

⁶And when Paul had ^alaid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began ^bspeaking with tongues and ^cprophesying.

⁷Now there were in all about twelve men.

⁸And after he entered ^athe synagogue, he continued speaking out boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading them ^babout the kingdom of God.

⁹But when ^asome were becoming hardened and were not believing, speaking evil of ^bthe Way before the multitude, he left them and took away ^cthe disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.

¹⁰This took place for ^atwo years, so that all who lived in ^1bAsia heard ^cthe word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.

Miracles in Ephesus

¹¹And God was doing ^aextraordinary ¹miracles by the hands of Paul,

^12aso that cloths or aprons were even carried from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and ^bthe evil spirits went out.