⁴ Again he measured a thousand, and led me through the water, and it was knee-deep. Again he measured a thousand, and led me through the water, and it was waist-deep.

⁶ which has come to you, as indeed ^(A)in the whole world it is ^(B)bearing fruit and increasing—as it also does among you, since the day you ^(C)heard it and understood ^(D)the grace of God in truth,

^19 (A)by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God—so that ^(B)from Jerusalem and all the way around ^(C)to Illyricum I have fulfilled the ministry of the gospel of Christ;

¹⁰ This continued for ^(A)two years, so that ^(B)all the residents of Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.

The Sons of Sceva

¹¹ And ^(C)God was doing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul, ^12 (D)so that even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were carried away to the sick, and their diseases left them and ^(E)the evil spirits came out of them. ¹³ Then some of the itinerant Jewish ^(F)exorcists ^(G)undertook to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, ^(H)“I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul proclaims.” ¹⁴ Seven sons of a Jewish high priest named Sceva were doing this. ¹⁵ But the evil spirit answered them, ^(I)“Jesus I know, and Paul I recognize, but who are you?” ¹⁶ And the man in whom was the evil spirit leaped on them, mastered all^[a] of them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. ¹⁷ And this became known to all the residents of Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks. And fear fell upon them all, and ^(J)the name of the Lord Jesus was extolled. ¹⁸ Also many of those who were now believers came, ^(K)confessing and divulging their practices. ¹⁹ And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver. ²⁰ So the word of the Lord ^(L)continued to increase and prevail mightily.