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Acts 19:17-25

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17Now this became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived in Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was being exalted.
18And many of those who had believed started coming, confessing and disclosing their practices.
19In fact, many of those who had practiced magic brought their books together and burned them up, in front of everybody (they had calculated their value and it totaled fifty thousand pieces of silver).
20With power like that it was that the word of the Lord kept growing and prevailing.
21Now after these things were accomplished, Paul resolved in his spirit to go to Jerusalem, passing through Macedonia and Achaia, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”
22So he sent two of those who ministered to him, Timothy and Erastus, on to Macedonia, while he himself stayed on in Asia for a time.
23Now it was during that time that a serious disturbance concerning the Way occurred.
24A certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, habitually brought in plenty of business for the artisans;
25he called them together, along with the workmen in related trades, and said: “Men, you know that our prosperity depends on this trade.

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