Acts 19:4-12

⁴Paul said, “John baptized people who turned away from their sinful behavior. He also told the people to believe in the one who would come after he had come, and that was Jesus.”

⁵So, when those men heard that, they were baptized to affirm that they believed MTY in the Lord Jesus.

⁶After that, Paul placed his hands on their heads one by one, and the power of the Holy Spirit came upon each of them. The Holy Spirit enabled them to speak in various languages MTY that they had not learned, and they also spoke messages that the Holy Spirit revealed to them.

⁷There were about twelve men whom Paul baptized and who received the power of the Holy Spirit.

⁸For three months after that, Paul entered the Jewish meeting place in Ephesus on each Sabbath/Jewish day of rest, and he spoke boldly. He convincingly taught the people about how God wanted to rule MET their lives.

⁹A few of the people in the meeting house believed the message about Jesus. But some of the people would not believe that message and did not want to continue to hear it. While many people were listening, they said many bad things about the way for people to receive eternal life about which Paul was preaching. So Paul left them and took the believers with him to meet in another place. He taught every day in a lecture hall that a man whose name was Tyrannus lectured in/owned.

¹⁰For two years Paul continued to teach people in that building. In this way, most of HYP the Jews and non-Jews who lived in Asia province heard the message about the Lord Jesus.

¹¹Also, God gave Paul the power MTY to do amazing miracles.

¹²If those who were sick could not come to Paul, handkerchiefs or aprons that Paul had touched would be taken and placed on the sick people { others would take and place on the sick people handkerchiefs or aprons that Paul had touched}. As a result, those sick people would become well, and evil spirits that troubled people would leave.