019:006 and when Paul laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came
on them, and they began to speak in tongues and to prophesy.
019:007 They numbered in all about twelve men.
019:008 Afterwards he went into the synagogue. There for three months
he continued to preach fearlessly, explaining in words which
carried conviction the truths which concern the Kingdom of God.
019:009 But some grew obstinate in unbelief and spoke evil of the new
faith before all the congregation. So Paul left them, and,
taking with him those who were disciples, held discussions
daily in Tyrannus's lecture-hall.
019:010 This went on for two years, so that all the inhabitants
of the province of Asia, Jews as well as Greeks,
heard the Lord's Message.
019:011 God also brought about extraordinary miracles through
Paul's instrumentality.
019:012 Towels or aprons, for instance, which Paul had handled used to be
carried to the sick, and they recovered from their ailments,
or the evil spirits left them.
019:013 But there were also some wandering Jewish exorcists who undertook
to invoke the name of Jesus over those who had the evil spirits,
saying, "I command you by that Jesus whom Paul preaches."
019:014 There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew of high-priestly family,
who were doing this.
019:015 "Jesus I know," the evil spirit answered, "and Paul I have
heard of, but who are you?"
019:016 And the man in whom the evil spirit was sprang on two of them,
over-mastered them both, and treated them with such violence,
that they fled from the house stripped of their clothes and wounded.
019:017 All the people of Ephesus, Jews as well as Greeks, came to know
of this. There was widespread terror, and they began to hold