Acts 19:13-18

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 honour.

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