Acts 19:1-20

1Now it happened that while 1Apollos was in 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, “On the contrary, 6we have not even heard if there is a Holy Spirit.” 3And he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” And they said, “7Into John’s baptism.” 4Paul said, “8John baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people 9to believe in Him who was coming after him, that is, in Jesus.” 5When they heard this, they were 10baptized 11in the name of the Lord Jesus. 6And when Paul had 12laid hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them and they began 13speaking with tongues and 14prophesying. 7There were about twelve men in all.

8And he entered 15the synagogue and continued speaking out boldly for three months, having discussions and persuading them 16about the kingdom of God. 9But when 17some were becoming hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of 1819the Way before the 20people, he withdrew from them and took 21the disciples away with him, and had discussions 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 31use the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had the evil spirits, saying, “I order you in the name of Jesus whom Paul preaches!” 14Now there were seven sons of 32Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, doing this. 15But the evil spirit responded and said to them, “I recognize Jesus, and I know of Paul, but who are you?” 16And the man in whom was the evil spirit, pounced 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 who lived in 33Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks; 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 began burning them in the sight of everyone; and they added up the prices of 34the books and found it to be fifty thousand 3536pieces of silver. 20So 3738the word of the Lord 39was growing and prevailing mightily.