Acts 19:11-19

¹¹God did miracles of no ordinary kind by Paul's hands;

¹²so that people would carry home to the sick handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his body, and their diseases would leave them and the wicked spirits go out of them.

¹³An attempt was made by some itinerant Jews, who were exorcists, to use the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had wicked spirits in them. “I order you,” they would say, “by the Jesus, whom Paul preaches.”

¹⁴The seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this;

¹⁵but the wicked spirit answered them, “Jesus I acknowledge, and Paul I know, but you — who are you?”

¹⁶Then the man, in whom this wicked spirit was, sprang on them, mastered both of them, and so completely overpowered them, that they fled out of the house, stripped of their clothes, and wounded.

¹⁷This incident came to the knowledge of all the Jews and Greeks living at Ephesus; they were all awe-struck, and the name of the Lord Jesus was held in the highest honor.

¹⁸Many, too, of those who had become believers in Christ came with a full confession of their practices;

¹⁹while a number of people, who had practiced magic, collected their books and burnt them publicly; and on reckoning up the price of these, they found it amounted to fifty thousand silver coins.