Acts 19:1-12 ▼

1 And it came to pass while Apollos was in Corinth that Paul, having passed through the upper parts to come to Ephesus and having found certain disciples,

2 also said to them, “Did you? receive the Holy Spirit, having believed?” And they said to him, “But we did not even hear that there is a Holy Spirit.”

3 And he said, “Into what, then, were you? baptized?” And they said, “Into John's baptism.”

4 And Paul said, “John baptized a baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the One coming after him, that is, in Jesus.”

5 And having heard, they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.

6 And Paul having laid the hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they were speaking in tongues and prophesying.

7 And there were in all about twelve men.

8 And having entered into the synagogue, he was speaking boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading concerning the kingdom of God.

9 But when some were hardened and were disbelieving, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, having departed from them, he separated the disciples, reasoning every day in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

10 And this continued for two years, so that all those inhabiting Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.

11 And God was doing miracles not being ordinary through the hands of Paul,

12 so that even soudaria or simikinthia from his skin were brought to the ailing, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits left.