Acts 19
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Acts 19:11-19

11God was performing 1extraordinary 2miracles by the hands of Paul,

123so that handkerchiefs or aprons were even carried from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and 4the evil spirits went out.

13But also some of the Jewish 5exorcists, who went from place to place, attempted to 6use 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 7Sceva, 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 8Ephesus, 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 9the books and found it to be fifty thousand 1011pieces of silver.

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Notes

  1. 1. Acts 19:11 Acts 8:13 ↩
  2. 2. Acts 19:11 Or works of power ↩
  3. 3. Acts 19:12 Acts 5:15 ↩
  4. 4. Acts 19:12 Mark 16:17 ↩
  5. 5. Acts 19:13 Matt 12:27; Luke 11:19 ↩
  6. 6. Acts 19:13 I.e., as an incantation ↩
  7. 7. Acts 19:14 Lit some Sceva ↩
  8. 8. Acts 19:17 Acts 18:19 ↩
  9. 9. Acts 19:19 Lit them ↩
  10. 10. Acts 19:19 Prob. Greek drachmas; a drachma was a day’s wages for a laborer ↩
  11. 11. Acts 19:19 Luke 15:8 ↩

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