Acts 19:12-27

121so that handkerchiefs or aprons were even carried from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and 2the evil spirits went out. 13But also some of the Jewish 3exorcists, who went from place to place, attempted to 4use 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 5Sceva, 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 6Ephesus, 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 7the books and found it to be fifty thousand 89pieces of silver. 20So 1011the word of the Lord 12was growing and prevailing mightily.

21Now after these things were finished, Paul resolved in 13the Spirit to 14go to Jerusalem 15after he had passed through 16Macedonia and 17Achaia, saying, “After I have been there, 18I must also see Rome.” 22And after he sent into 19Macedonia two of 20those who assisted him, 21Timothy and 22Erastus, he himself stayed in 2324Asia for a while.

23About that time 25a major disturbance occurred in regard to 2627the Way. 24For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver shrines of 28Artemis, 29was bringing 30considerable 31business to the craftsmen; 25he gathered these men together with the workmen of similar trades, and said, “Men, you know that our prosperity 32depends upon this business. 26You see and hear that not only in 33Ephesus, but in almost all of 3435Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away a considerable number of people, saying that 3637gods made by hands are not gods at all. 27Not only is there danger that this trade of ours will fall into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess 38Artemis will be regarded as worthless, and that she whom all of 3940Asia and 41the 42world worship will even be dethroned from her magnificence.”