Acts 19:17-20
Legacy Standard Bible
17 And this became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived in (A)Ephesus; and fear fell upon them all and the name of the Lord Jesus was being magnified. 18 Also, many of those who had believed kept coming, confessing and disclosing their practices. 19 And many of those who practiced magic brought their books together and were burning them in the sight of everyone; and they counted up the price of them and found it fifty thousand [a](B)pieces of silver. 20 So [b](C)the word of the Lord (D)was growing mightily and prevailing.
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- Acts 19:19 A silver piece was approx. a laborer’s daily wage
- Acts 19:20 Or according to the power of the Lord the word was growing
Acts 19:17-20
Lexham English Bible
17 And this became known to all who lived in Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks, and fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was exalted. 18 And many of those who had believed came, confessing and disclosing their practices, 19 and many of those who practiced magic brought together their[a] books and[b] burned them[c] up in the sight of everyone. And they counted up their value and found it was fifty thousand silver coins.[d] 20 In this way the word of the Lord was growing in power and was prevailing.
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- Acts 19:19 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
- Acts 19:19 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“brought together”) has been translated as a finite verb
- Acts 19:19 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
- Acts 19:19 Literally “five ten thousands of silver coins”
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