Acts 18:24-19:7

New American Standard Bible

²⁴Now a Jew named ^(A)Apollos, an ^(B)Alexandrian by birth, ^[a]an eloquent man, came to ^(C)Ephesus; and he was proficient in the Scriptures. ²⁵This man had been instructed in ^(D)the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he was accurately speaking and teaching things about Jesus, being acquainted only with ^(E)the baptism of John; ²⁶and ^[b]he began speaking boldly in the synagogue. But when ^(F)Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained ^(G)the way of God more accurately to him. ²⁷And when he wanted to go across to ^(H)Achaia, ^(I)the brothers encouraged him and wrote to ^(J)the disciples to welcome him; and when he had arrived, he greatly ^[c]helped those who had believed through grace, ²⁸for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, demonstrating ^(K)by the Scriptures that ^(L)Jesus was the ^[d]Christ.

Paul in Ephesus

19 Now it happened that while ^(M)Apollos was in ^(N)Corinth, Paul passed through the ^(O)upper country and came to ^(P)Ephesus, and found some disciples. ²He said to them, “^(Q)Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said to him, “On the contrary, ^(R)we have not even heard if there is a Holy Spirit.” ³And he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” And they said, “^(S)Into John’s baptism.” ⁴Paul said, “^(T)John baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people ^(U)to believe in Him who was coming after him, that is, in Jesus.” ⁵When they heard this, they were ^(V)baptized ^[e]in the name of the Lord Jesus. ⁶And when Paul had ^(W)laid hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them and they began ^(X)speaking with tongues and ^(Y)prophesying. ⁷There were about twelve men in all.

Footnotes

Acts 18:24 Or a learned man
Acts 18:26 Lit this man
Acts 18:27 Or helped greatly through grace those who had believed
Acts 18:28 I.e., Messiah
Acts 19:5 Lit into

Acts 19:8-20

New American Standard Bible

⁸And he entered ^(A)the synagogue and continued speaking out boldly for three months, having discussions and persuading them ^(B)about the kingdom of God. ⁹But when ^(C)some were becoming hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of ^[a]^(D)the Way before the ^[b]people, he withdrew from them and took ^(E)the disciples away with him, and had discussions daily in the school of Tyrannus. ¹⁰This took place for ^(F)two years, so that all who lived in ^[c]^(G)Asia heard ^(H)the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.

Miracles at Ephesus

¹¹God was performing ^(I)extraordinary ^[d]miracles by the hands of Paul, ¹²^(J)so that handkerchiefs or aprons were even carried from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and ^(K)the evil spirits went out. ¹³But also some of the Jewish ^(L)exorcists, who went from place to place, attempted to ^[e]use the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had the evil spirits, saying, “I order you in the name of Jesus whom Paul preaches!” ¹⁴Now there were seven sons of ^[f]Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, doing this. ¹⁵But the evil spirit responded and said to them, “I recognize Jesus, and I know of Paul, but who are you?” ¹⁶And the man in whom was the evil spirit, pounced on them and subdued all of them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. ¹⁷This became known to all who lived in ^(M)Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks; and fear fell upon them all and the name of the Lord Jesus was being magnified. ¹⁸Also many of those who had believed kept coming, confessing and disclosing their practices. ¹⁹And many of those who practiced magic brought their books together and began burning them in the sight of everyone; and they added up the prices of ^[g]the books and found it to be fifty thousand ^[h]^(N)pieces of silver. ²⁰So ^[i]^(O)the word of the Lord ^(P)was growing and prevailing mightily.