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Also there were seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did so.
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And the evil spirit answered and said, "Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?"
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Then the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
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This became known both to all Jews and Greeks dwelling in Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.
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And many who had believed came confessing and telling their deeds.
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Also, many of those who had practiced magic brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted up the value of them, and it totaled fifty thousand pieces of silver.
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So the word of the Lord grew mightily and prevailed.
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When these things were accomplished, Paul purposed in the Spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, "After I have been there, I must also see Rome."
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So he sent into Macedonia two of those who ministered to him, Timothy and Erastus, but he himself stayed in Asia for a time.
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And about that time there arose a great commotion about the Way.
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For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Diana, brought no small profit to the craftsmen.