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They said to him, "No, we haven't even heard that there is a Holy Spirit." <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/19-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>He said, "Into what then were you baptized?" They said, "Into John's baptism." <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/19-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Paul said, "John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus." <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/19-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/19-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke with other languages and prophesied. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/19-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>They were about twelve men in all.</p> <a name="8" id="8"></a><p class="hdg">Paul Ministers in Ephesus<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../revelation/2.htm">Revelation 2:1-7</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/19-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He entered into the synagogue, and spoke boldly for a period of three months, reasoning and persuading about the things concerning the Kingdom of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/19-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/19-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>This continued for two years, so that all those who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/19-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>God worked special miracles by the hands of Paul, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/19-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick, and the evil spirits went out.</p> <p class="hdg">The Sons of Sceva</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/19-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But some of the itinerant Jews, exorcists, took on themselves to invoke over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, "We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches." <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/19-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did this. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/19-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The evil spirit answered, "Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/19-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/19-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>This became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived at Ephesus. Fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/19-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Many also of those who had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/19-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Many of those who practiced magical arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. They counted the price of them, and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/19-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>So the word of the Lord was growing and becoming mighty.</p> <p class="hdg">The Riot in Ephesus</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/19-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, "After I have been there, I must also see Rome." <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/19-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Having sent into Macedonia two of those who served him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/19-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>About that time there arose no small stir concerning the Way. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/19-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/19-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>whom he gathered together, with the workmen of like occupation, and said, "Sirs, you know that by this business we have our wealth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/19-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>You see and hear, that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods, that are made with hands. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/19-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Not only is there danger that this our trade come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be counted as nothing, and her majesty destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worships."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/19-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>When they heard this they were filled with anger, and cried out, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!" <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/19-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>The whole city was filled with confusion, and they rushed with one accord into the theater, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/19-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>When Paul wanted to enter in to the people, the disciples didn't allow him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/19-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Certain also of the Asiarchs, being his friends, sent to him and begged him not to venture into the theater. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/19-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Some therefore cried one thing, and some another, for the assembly was in confusion. Most of them didn't know why they had come together. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/19-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>They brought Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. Alexander beckoned with his hand, and would have made a defense to the people. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/19-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>But when they perceived that he was a Jew, all with one voice for a time of about two hours cried out, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!" <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/19-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>When the town clerk had quieted the multitude, he said, "You men of Ephesus, what man is there who doesn't know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great goddess Artemis, and of the image which fell down from Zeus? <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/19-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Seeing then that these things can't be denied, you ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rash. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/19-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>For you have brought these men here, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of your goddess. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/19-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>If therefore Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a matter against anyone, the courts are open, and there are proconsuls. Let them press charges against one another. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/19-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>But if you seek anything about other matters, it will be settled in the regular assembly. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/19-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>For indeed we are in danger of being accused concerning this day's riot, there being no cause. Concerning it, we wouldn't be able to give an account of this commotion." <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/19-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>When he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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