Acts 19:5-16

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;

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.