19While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul was visiting some places on the way to Ephesus. There he found some followers ²and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?”

They said, “We have never even heard of a Holy Spirit.”

³So he asked, “What kind of baptism did you have?”

They said, “It was the baptism that John taught.”

⁴Paul said, “John’s baptism was a baptism of changed hearts and lives. He told people to believe in the one who would come after him, and that one is Jesus.”

⁵When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. ⁶Then Paul laid his hands on them, ⁿ and the Holy Spirit came upon them. They began speaking different languages ⁿ and prophesying. ⁷There were about twelve people in this group.

⁸Paul went into the synagogue and spoke out boldly for three months. He talked with the people and persuaded them to accept the things he said about the kingdom of God. ⁹But some of them became stubborn. They refused to believe and said evil things about the Way of Jesus before all the people. So Paul left them, and taking the followers with him, he went to the school of a man named Tyrannus. There Paul talked with people every day ¹⁰for two years. Because of his work, every Jew and Greek in Asia heard the word of the Lord.

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¹¹God used Paul to do some very special miracles. ¹²Some people took handkerchiefs and clothes that Paul had used and put them on the sick. When they did this, the sick were healed and evil spirits left them.

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Footnotes

nlaid his hands on them The laying on of hands had many purposes, including the giving of a blessing, power, or authority.
nlanguages This can also be translated “tongues.”