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- While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul took the road through the interior and arrived at Ephesus. There he found some disciples
- and asked them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" They answered, "No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit."
- So Paul asked, "Then what baptism did you receive?" "John's baptism," they replied.
- Paul said, "John's baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the one coming after him, that is, in Jesus."
- On hearing this, they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.
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- When Paul placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied.
- There were about twelve men in all.
- Paul entered the synagogue and spoke boldly there for three months, arguing persuasively about the kingdom of God.
- But some of them became obstinate; they refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way. So Paul left them. He took the disciples with him and had discussions daily in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.
- This went on for two years, so that all the Jews and Greeks who lived in the province of Asia heard the word of the Lord.
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- God did extraordinary miracles through Paul,
- so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and their illnesses were cured and the evil spirits left them.
- Some Jews who went around driving out evil spirits tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who were demon-possessed. They would say, "In the name of Jesus, whom Paul preaches, I command you to come out."
- Seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this.
- (One day) the evil spirit answered them, "Jesus I know, and I know about Paul, but who are you?"
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- Then the man who had the evil spirit jumped on them and overpowered them all. He gave them such a beating that they ran out of the house naked and bleeding.
- When this became known to the Jews and Greeks living in Ephesus, they were all seized with fear, and the name of the Lord Jesus was held in high honor.
- Many of those who believed now came and openly confessed their evil deeds.
- A number who had practiced sorcery brought their scrolls together and burned them publicly. When they calculated the value of the scrolls, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas.
- In this way the word of the Lord spread widely and grew in power.
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- After all this had happened, Paul decided to go to Jerusalem, passing through Macedonia and Achaia. "After I have been there," he said, "I must visit Rome also."
- He sent two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia, while he stayed in the province of Asia a little longer.
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