Book of Common Prayer

19 While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul went over land and came to the city of Ephesus. There he met some disciples.

² Paul asked them, `Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?' They said, `No. We have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.'

³ Paul asked them, `How were you baptised?' They said, `We were baptised in John's way.'

⁴ Then Paul said, `John baptised people when they stopped their wrong ways. He told people that they should believe on the one who would follow him. That one is Jesus.'

⁵ When they heard this, they were baptised in the name of the Lord Jesus.

⁶ Paul put his hands on them. Then the Holy Spirit came on them and they spoke in tongues of other lang-uages and spoke words from God.

⁷ In all, there were about twelve men.

⁸ Paul went into the meeting place. For three months he talked without fear to the people there. He tried to talk so that people would obey God.

⁹ Some of them were fixed in their minds and would not believe. They said, `The Christian way is not good' They said this in front of all the people. So Paul left them and took the disciples away. He talked and answered the questions of the people every day in the school of a man named Tyrannus.

¹⁰ This went on for two years, and all the people who lived in the province of Asia, both the Jews and the Greeks, heard the Lord's word.

4 Jesus was full of the Holy Spirit. He left the Jordan River, and the Spirit led him into the desert for forty days.

² The devil tried to make him do wrong. Jesus did not eat in those forty days. Then he was very hungry.

³ The devil said to him, `If you are God's Son, tell this stone to be changed into bread.'

⁴ Jesus answered him, `The holy writings say, "Man cannot live on bread only." '

⁵ The devil took Jesus to a high place where he could see all the countries of the world at one time.

⁶ He said to Jesus, `I will give you the right to rule over all these countries. They will make you great. All this has been given to me. I can give it to anyone I want.

⁷ So, if you worship and give honour to me, all will be yours.'

⁸ Jesus answered him, `The holy writings say, "You must worship the Lord your God and he is the only one you are to worship." '

⁹ The devil took Jesus to Jerusalem. He put him on a high part of the temple. He said to him, `If you are God's Son, jump down.

¹⁰ The holy writings say, "God will tell his angels to take care of you."

¹¹ And "They will hold you up in their hands so that you will not knock your foot on a stone." '

¹² Jesus answered him, `The holy writings say, "You must not test the Lord your God." '

¹³ When the devil finished all his testing, he left him for a while.