New Testament in a Year

Paul in Ephesus

19 Now it happened that while ^(A)Apollos was at ^(B)Corinth, Paul passed through the ^(C)upper regions and came to ^(D)Ephesus and found some disciples. ² And he said to them, “^(E)Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said to him, “No, ^(F)we have not even heard if the Holy Spirit is being received.” ³ And he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” And they said, “^(G)Into John’s baptism.” ⁴ Then Paul said, “^(H)John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people ^(I)to believe in Him who was coming after him, that is, in Jesus.” ⁵ And when they heard this, they were ^(J)baptized ^[a]in the name of the Lord Jesus. ⁶ And when Paul had ^(K)laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began ^(L)speaking with tongues and ^(M)prophesying. ⁷ Now there were in all about twelve men.

⁸ And after he entered ^(N)the synagogue, he continued speaking out boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading them ^(O)about the kingdom of God. ⁹ But when ^(P)some were becoming hardened and were not believing, speaking evil of ^(Q)the Way before the multitude, he left them and took away ^(R)the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus. ¹⁰ This took place for ^(S)two years, so that all who lived in ^[b](T)Asia heard ^(U)the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.

Miracles in Ephesus

¹¹ And God was doing ^(V)extraordinary ^[c]miracles by the hands of Paul, ^12 (W)so that cloths or aprons were even carried from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and ^(X)the evil spirits went out. ¹³ But also some of the Jewish ^(Y)exorcists, who went from place to place, attempted to invoke over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, “I implore you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.” ¹⁴ Now seven sons of one named Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this. ¹⁵ And the evil spirit answered and said to them, “I recognize Jesus, and I know about Paul, but who are you?” ¹⁶ And the man, in whom was the evil spirit, leaped on them, subdued all of them, and utterly prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. ¹⁷ And this became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived in ^(Z)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 ^[d](AA)pieces of silver. ²⁰ So ^[e](AB)the word of the Lord ^(AC)was growing mightily and prevailing.