2 [19:1]And when Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, passing through the higher portions of the country, came to Ephesus, and found certain disciples; [19:2] and he said to them, Have you received the Holy Spirit since you believed? And they said to him, We have not heard that there is a Holy Spirit. [19:3]And he said to them, With what then were you baptized? And they said, With John's baptism. [19:4]Paul said, John indeed baptized [administered] the baptism of a change of mind, telling the people to believe on him that was to come after him, that is, on Jesus. [19:5]And hearing this they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus: [19:6]and Paul putting his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke with tongues and prophesied. [19:7]And all the men were about twelve. 3 [19:8]And going into the synagogue he spoke boldly, for three months, reasoning and persuading in favor of the kingdom of God. [19:9]But when some were hardened and believed not, speaking evil of the way before the multitude, he left them and separated the disciples from them, and reasoned day by day in the school of one Tyrannus. [19:10]And this was done for two years, so that all who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks. 4 [19:11]And God performed unusual miracles by the hands of Paul, [19:12]so that napkins and aprons were brought from him to the sick, and their diseases left them, and the evil spirits went out of them. [19:13]And some of the travelling Jewish exorcists undertook to call over those that had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches. [19:14]And there were some seven sons of Sceva, a Jew, a chief priest, who did this. [19:15]But the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you? [19:16]And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped upon them, and overcome them, and prevailed against them, so that they escaped from his house, naked and wounded. [19:17]And this was known both to all the Jews and Greeks who lived at Ephesus, and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified; [19:18]and many of those who believed came and confessed, and showed their practices. [19:19]And many of those who practised secret arts brought their books, and burnt them before all; and they computed the price of them, and found it to be fifty thousand [didrachmas] of silver [$8,333]. [19:20]So the word of the Lord increased powerfully and prevailed. 6 [19:21]And when these things were accomplished, Paul was disposed by the Spirit, passing through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there I must see Rome. [19:22]And sending two that served him into Macedonia, Timothy and Erastus, he continued a time in Asia.