◄ Acts 19 ►
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1[an error occurred while processing this directive]1And it happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the inland country and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples.
2[an error occurred while processing this directive]2And he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”
3[an error occurred while processing this directive]3And he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John’s baptism.”
4[an error occurred while processing this directive]4And Paul said, “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, Jesus.”
5[an error occurred while processing this directive]5On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
6[an error occurred while processing this directive]6And when Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began speaking in tongues and prophesying.
7[an error occurred while processing this directive]7There were about twelve men in all.
8[an error occurred while processing this directive]8And he entered the synagogue and for three months spoke boldly, reasoning and persuading them about the kingdom of God.
9[an error occurred while processing this directive]9But when some became stubborn and continued in unbelief, speaking evil of the Way before the congregation, he withdrew from them and took the disciples with him, reasoning daily in the hall of Tyrannus.
10[an error occurred while processing this directive]10This continued for two years, so that all the residents of Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.
11[an error occurred while processing this directive]11And God was doing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul,
12[an error occurred while processing this directive]12so that even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were carried away to the sick, and their diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them.
13[an error occurred while processing this directive]13Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists undertook to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul proclaims.”
14[an error occurred while processing this directive]14Seven sons of a Jewish high priest named Sceva were doing this.
15[an error occurred while processing this directive]15But the evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I recognize, but who are you?”
16[an error occurred while processing this directive]16And the man in whom was the evil spirit leaped on them, mastered all of them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
17[an error occurred while processing this directive]17And this became known to all the residents of Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks. And fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was extolled.
18[an error occurred while processing this directive]18Also many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices.
19[an error occurred while processing this directive]19And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver.
20[an error occurred while processing this directive]20So the word of the Lord continued to increase and prevail mightily.
21[an error occurred while processing this directive]21Now after these events Paul resolved in the Spirit to pass through Macedonia and Achaia and go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”
22[an error occurred while processing this directive]22And having sent into Macedonia two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.
23[an error occurred while processing this directive]23About that time there arose no little disturbance concerning the Way.
24[an error occurred while processing this directive]24For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen.
25[an error occurred while processing this directive]25These he gathered together, with the workmen in similar trades, and said, “Men, you know that from this business we have our wealth.
26[an error occurred while processing this directive]26And you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost all of Asia this Paul has persuaded and turned away a great many people, saying that gods made with hands are not gods.
27[an error occurred while processing this directive]27And there is danger not only that this trade of ours may come into disrepute but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis may be counted as nothing, and that she may even be deposed from her magnificence, she whom all Asia and the world worship.”
28[an error occurred while processing this directive]28When they heard this they were enraged and were crying out, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
29[an error occurred while processing this directive]29So the city was filled with the confusion, and they rushed together into the theater, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians who were Paul’s companions in travel.
30[an error occurred while processing this directive]30But when Paul wished to go in among the crowd, the disciples would not let him.
31[an error occurred while processing this directive]31And even some of the Asiarchs, who were friends of his, sent to him and were urging him not to venture into the theater.
32[an error occurred while processing this directive]32Now some cried out one thing, some another, for the assembly was in confusion, and most of them did not know why they had come together.
33[an error occurred while processing this directive]33Some of the crowd prompted Alexander, whom the Jews had put forward. And Alexander, motioning with his hand, wanted to make a defense to the crowd.
34[an error occurred while processing this directive]34But when they recognized that he was a Jew, for about two hours they all cried out with one voice, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
35[an error occurred while processing this directive]35And when the town clerk had quieted the crowd, he said, “Men of Ephesus, who is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great Artemis, and of the sacred stone that fell from the sky?
36[an error occurred while processing this directive]36Seeing then that these things cannot be denied, you ought to be quiet and do nothing rash.
37[an error occurred while processing this directive]37For you have brought these men here who are neither sacrilegious nor blasphemers of our goddess.
38[an error occurred while processing this directive]38If therefore Demetrius and the craftsmen with him have a complaint against anyone, the courts are open, and there are proconsuls. Let them bring charges against one another.
39[an error occurred while processing this directive]39But if you seek anything further, it shall be settled in the regular assembly.
40[an error occurred while processing this directive]40For we really are in danger of being charged with rioting today, since there is no cause that we can give to justify this commotion.”
41[an error occurred while processing this directive]41And when he had said these things, he dismissed the assembly.
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