Acts 19:1–20

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.

¹³But also some of the Jewish ^aexorcists, who went from place to place, attempted to invoke over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, “I implore you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.”

¹⁴Now seven sons of one named Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this.

¹⁵And the evil spirit answered and said to them, “I recognize Jesus, and I know about Paul, but who are you?”

¹⁶And the man, in whom was the evil spirit, leaped on them, subdued all of them, and utterly prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

¹⁷And this became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived in ^aEphesus; and fear fell upon them all and the name of the Lord Jesus was being magnified.

¹⁸Also, many of those who had believed kept coming, confessing and disclosing their practices.

¹⁹And many of those who practiced magic brought their books together and were burning them in the sight of everyone; and they counted up the price of them and found it fifty thousand ^1apieces of silver.

²⁰So ^1athe word of the Lord ^bwas growing mightily and prevailing.