Acts 19:8-22

8And he entered 1the synagogue and continued speaking out boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading them 2about the kingdom of God. 9But when 3some were becoming hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of 4the Way before the 5people, he withdrew from them and took away 6the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus. 10This took place for 7two years, so that all who lived in 89Asia heard 10the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.

11God was performing 11extraordinary 12miracles by the hands of Paul, 1213so that handkerchiefs or aprons were even carried from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and 14the evil spirits went out. 13But also some of the Jewish 15exorcists, 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 16Ephesus; 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 17fifty thousand 18pieces of silver. 20So 1920the word of the Lord 21was growing mightily and prevailing.

21Now after these things were finished, Paul purposed in the 22Spirit to 23go to Jerusalem 24after he had passed through 25Macedonia and 26Achaia, saying, “After I have been there, 27I must also see Rome.” 22And having sent into 28Macedonia two of 29those who ministered to him, 30Timothy and 31Erastus, he himself stayed in 3233Asia for a while.