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18 Many also of those who were now believers came making [a]full confession and thoroughly exposing their [former deceptive and evil] practices.

19 And many of those who had practiced curious, magical arts collected their books and [throwing them, [b]book after book, on the pile] burned them in the sight of everybody. When they counted the value of them, they found it amounted to 50,000 pieces of silver ([c]about $9,300).

20 Thus the Word of the Lord [concerning the [d]attainment through Christ of eternal salvation in the kingdom of God] grew and spread and intensified, prevailing mightily.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 19:18 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
  2. Acts 19:19 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
  3. Acts 19:19 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
  4. Acts 19:20 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.

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