[18] Many of the believers began to confess, telling about all the evil things they had done.
[19] Some of them had used magic. These believers brought their magic books and burned them before everyone. These books were worth about 50,000 silver coins.
[20] This is how the word of the Lord was spreading in a powerful way, causing more and more people to believe.
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[13-14] Some Jews also were traveling around forcing evil spirits out of people. The seven sons of Sceva, one of the leading priests, were doing this. These Jews tried to use the name of the Lord Jesus to make the evil spirits go out of people. They all said, “By the same Jesus that Paul talks about, I order you to come out!”
[15] But one time an evil spirit said to these Jews, “I know Jesus, and I know about Paul, but who are you?”
[16] Then the man who had the evil spirit inside him jumped on these Jews. He was much stronger than all of them. He beat them up and tore their clothes off. They all ran away from that house.
[17] All the people in Ephesus, Jews and Greeks, learned about this. They were all filled with fear and gave great honor to the Lord Jesus.
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[2] He asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” These followers said to him, “We have never even heard of a Holy Spirit!”
[3] Paul asked them, “So what kind of baptism did you have?” They said, “It was the baptism that John taught.”
[4] Paul said, “John told people to be baptized to show they wanted to change their lives. He told people to believe in the one who would come after him, and that one is Jesus.”
[5] When these followers heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
[6] Then Paul laid his hands on them, and the Holy Spirit came on them. They began speaking different languages and prophesying.
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[27] Apollos wanted to go to Achaia. So the believers in Ephesus helped him. They wrote a letter to the Lord’s followers in Achaia and asked them to accept Apollos. When he arrived there, he was a great help to those who had believed in Jesus because of God’s grace.
[28] He argued very strongly against the Jews before all the people. He clearly proved that the Jews were wrong. He used the Scriptures and showed that Jesus is the Messiah.
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[9] During the night, Paul had a vision. The Lord said to him, “Don’t be afraid, and don’t stop talking to people.
[10] I am with you, and no one will be able to hurt you. Many of my people are in this city.”
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[5] But after Silas and Timothy came from Macedonia, Paul spent all his time telling God’s message to the Jews, trying to convince them that Jesus is the Messiah.
[6] But they disagreed with what Paul was teaching and started insulting him. So Paul shook the dust from his clothes. He said to them, “If you are not saved, it will be your own fault! I have done all I can do. After this I will go only to the non-Jewish people.”
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[26] God began by making one man, and from him he made all the different people who live everywhere in the world. He decided exactly when and where they would live.
[27] “God wanted people to look for him, and perhaps in searching all around for him, they would find him. But he is not far from any of us.
[28] It is through him that we are able to live, to do what we do, and to be who we are. As your own poets have said, ‘We all come from him.’
https://bible.com/bible/406/act.17.26-28.ERV
