019:012 so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick, and the evil spirits went out. 019:013 But some of the itinerant Jews, exorcists, took on themselves to invoke over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, "We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches." 019:014 There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did this. 019:015 The evil spirit answered, "Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?" 019:016 The man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. 019:017 This became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived at Ephesus. Fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified. 019:018 Many also of those who had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds. 019:019 Many of those who practiced magical arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. They counted the price of them, and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver.{The 50,000 pieces of silver here probably referred to 50,000 drachmas. If so, the value of the burned books was equivalent to about 160 man-years of wages for agricultural laborers} 019:020 So the word of the Lord was growing and becoming mighty. 019:021 Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, "After I have been there, I must also see Rome." 019:022 Having sent into Macedonia two of those who served him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while. 019:023 About that time there arose no small stir concerning the Way. 019:024 For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen, 019:025 whom he gathered together, with the workmen of like occupation, and said, "Sirs, you know that by this business we have our wealth. 019:026 You see and hear, that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods, that are made with hands. 019:027 Not only is there danger that this our trade come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be counted as nothing, and her majesty destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worships." 019:028 When they heard this they were filled with anger, and cried out, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!" 019:029 The whole city was filled with confusion, and they rushed with one accord into the theater, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel.