Acts 19:1-20

1It happened that while 1Apollos was at 2Corinth, Paul passed through the 3upper country and came to 4Ephesus, and found some disciples. 2He said to them, “5Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said to him, “No, 6we have not even heard whether 7there is a Holy Spirit.” 3And he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” And they said, “8Into John’s baptism.” 4Paul said, “9John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people 10to believe in Him who was coming after him, that is, in Jesus.” 5When they heard this, they were 11baptized 12in the name of the Lord Jesus. 6And when Paul had 13laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began 14speaking with tongues and 15prophesying. 7There were in all about twelve men.

8And he entered 16the synagogue and continued speaking out boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading them 17about the kingdom of God. 9But when 18some were becoming hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of 19the Way before the 20people, he withdrew from them and took away 21the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus. 10This took place for 22two years, so that all who lived in 2324Asia heard 25the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.

11God was performing 26extraordinary 27miracles by the hands of Paul, 1228so that handkerchiefs or aprons were even carried from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and 29the evil spirits went out. 13But also some of the Jewish 30exorcists, who went from place to place, attempted to name over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, “I adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.” 14Seven sons of one 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 and subdued all of them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. 17This became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived in 31Ephesus; and fear fell upon them all and the name of the Lord Jesus was being magnified. 18Many also of those who had believed kept coming, confessing and disclosing their practices. 19And many of those who practiced magic brought their books together and began burning them in the sight of everyone; and they counted up the price of them and found it 32fifty thousand 33pieces of silver. 20So 3435the word of the Lord 36was growing mightily and prevailing.