Acts 19:18
New International Version
Many of those who believed now came and openly confessed what they had done.

New Living Translation
Many who became believers confessed their sinful practices.

English Standard Version
Also many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices.

Berean Standard Bible
Many who had believed now came forward, confessing and disclosing their deeds.

Berean Literal Bible
And many of those having believed were coming, confessing and declaring their deeds,

King James Bible
And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds.

New King James Version
And many who had believed came confessing and telling their deeds.

New American Standard Bible
Also many of those who had believed kept coming, confessing and disclosing their practices.

NASB 1995
Many also of those who had believed kept coming, confessing and disclosing their practices.

NASB 1977
Many also of those who had believed kept coming, confessing and disclosing their practices.

Legacy Standard Bible
Also, many of those who had believed kept coming, confessing and disclosing their practices.

Amplified Bible
Many of those who had become believers were coming, confessing and disclosing their [former sinful] practices.

Christian Standard Bible
And many who had become believers came confessing and disclosing their practices,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
And many who had become believers came confessing and disclosing their practices,

American Standard Version
Many also of them that had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Many of those who believed were coming and relating their wrongdoing, and they were confessing the things that they were doing.

Contemporary English Version
Many who were followers now started telling everyone about the evil things they had been doing.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And many of them that believed, came confessing and declaring their deeds.

English Revised Version
Many also of them that had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Many believers openly admitted their involvement with magical spells and told all the details.

Good News Translation
Many of the believers came, publicly admitting and revealing what they had done.

International Standard Version
Many who became believers kept coming to confess and talk about what they had been doing.

Literal Standard Version
many also of those who believed were coming, confessing and declaring their acts,

Majority Standard Bible
Many who had believed now came forward, confessing and disclosing their deeds.

New American Bible
Many of those who had become believers came forward and openly acknowledged their former practices.

NET Bible
Many of those who had believed came forward, confessing and making their deeds known.

New Revised Standard Version
Also many of those who became believers confessed and disclosed their practices.

New Heart English Bible
Many also of those who had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds.

Webster's Bible Translation
And many that believed came, and confessed, and showed their deeds.

Weymouth New Testament
Many also of those who believed came confessing without reserve what their conduct had been,

World English Bible
Many also of those who had believed came, confessing and declaring their deeds.

Young's Literal Translation
many also of those who did believe were coming, confessing and declaring their acts,

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Context
The Sons of Sceva
17This became known to all the Jews and Greeks living in Ephesus, and fear came over all of them. So the name of the Lord Jesus was held in high honor. 18Many who had believed now came forward, confessing and disclosing their deeds. 19And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books and burned them in front of everyone. When the value of the books was calculated, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas.…

Cross References
Matthew 3:6
Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.

Acts 19:17
This became known to all the Jews and Greeks living in Ephesus, and fear came over all of them. So the name of the Lord Jesus was held in high honor.

Acts 19:19
And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books and burned them in front of everyone. When the value of the books was calculated, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas.

James 5:16
Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.


Treasury of Scripture

And many that believed came, and confessed, and showed their deeds.

confessed.

Leviticus 16:21
And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:

Leviticus 26:40
If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;

Job 33:27,28
He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not; …

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Acts 19
1. The Holy Spirit is given by Paul's hands.
8. The Jews blaspheme his doctrine, which is confirmed by miracles.
13. The Jewish exorcists,
16. are beaten by a man who had an evil spirit.
19. Conjuring books are burnt.
21. Demetrius, for love of gain, raises an uproar against Paul;
35. which is appeased by the town clerk.














(18) And many that believed.--More accurately, many of those that had believed. The word is probably used, as in Acts 19:2, for the whole process of conversion, including baptism, confession in this instance following on that rite, instead of preceding it. The words do not definitely state whether the confession was made privately to St. Paul and the other teachers, or publicly in the presence of the congregation; but the latter is, as in the confession made to the Baptist, much the more probable. (See Note on Matthew 3:6.) The feeling of a vague awe at this contact with the Unseen in some, the special belief in Christ as the Judge of all men in others, roused conscience into intense activity; the sins of their past lives came back upon their memories, and it was a relief to throw off the burden by confessing them.

Verse 18. - Many also of them that had believed for and many that believed, A.V.; confessing and declaring for and confessed and showed, A.V. Many also of them that had believed. This and the following verse speak of that class of converts who had previously been addicted to magic arts. It gives us a curious view of the extent to which magic prevailed among the Jews at this time. Nor was it less prevalent in heathen Ephesus. The magic formulae of Ephesus were famous under the name of Ἐφέσια γράμματα (see Renan, pp. 344,345, note), and the belief in magic seems to have been universal. Hesychius gives as the names of the oldest Ephesian charms, Aski, Kataski, Lix, Petrax, Damnameneus, AEsion, which he explains as meaning severally "Darkness, Light," "the Earth," "the Year," "the Truth" (Lewin, p. 334).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Many
πολλοί (polloi)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 4183: Much, many; often.

who
τῶν (tōn)
Article - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

had believed
πεπιστευκότων (pepisteukotōn)
Verb - Perfect Participle Active - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 4100: From pistis; to have faith, i.e. Credit; by implication, to entrust.

now
τε (te)
Conjunction
Strong's 5037: And, both. A primary particle of connection or addition; both or also.

came forward,
ἤρχοντο (ērchonto)
Verb - Imperfect Indicative Middle or Passive - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 2064: To come, go.

confessing
ἐξομολογούμενοι (exomologoumenoi)
Verb - Present Participle Middle - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 1843: From ek and homologeo; to acknowledge or agree fully.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

disclosing
ἀναγγέλλοντες (anangellontes)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 312: To bring back word, report; I announce, declare. From ana and the base of aggelos; to announce.

their
αὐτῶν (autōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

deeds.
πράξεις (praxeis)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural
Strong's 4234: From prasso; practice, i.e. an act; by extension, a function.


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