Acts 19:4-11

⁴“John's baptism was a baptism on repentance,” rejoined Paul, “and John told the people (speaking of the ‘one coming’ after him) that they should believe in him — that is in Jesus.”

⁵On hearing this, they were baptized into the faith of the Lord Jesus,

⁶and, after Paul had placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit descended on them, and they began to speak in other languages and to preach.

⁷There were about twelve of them in all.

⁸Paul went to the synagogue there, and for three months spoke out fearlessly, giving addresses and trying to convince his hearers, about the kingdom of God.

⁹Some of them, however, hardened their hearts and refused to believe, denouncing the Way before the people. So Paul left them and withdrew his disciples, and gave daily addresses in the lecture-hall of Tyrannus.

¹⁰This went on for two years, so that all who lived in Roman Asia, Jews and Greeks alike, heard the Lord's message.

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