Acts 19:11-16

The Sons of Sceva

11 And ¹God was doing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul,

12 ²so that even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were carried away to the sick, and their diseases left them and ³the evil spirits came out of them.

13 Then some of the itinerant Jewish ⁴exorcists ⁵undertook to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, ⁶"I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul proclaims."

14 Seven sons of a Jewish high priest named Sceva were doing this.

15 But the evil spirit answered them, ⁷"Jesus I know, and Paul I recognize, but who are you?"

16 And the man in whom was the evil spirit leaped on them, mastered all^[a] of them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

Cross References

• 1. [Acts 5:15]; See Acts 5:12
• 2. [See ver. 11 above]
• 3. See Mark 16:17
• 4. [Matthew 12:27; Luke 11:19]
• 5. See Mark 9:38
• 6. Matthew 26:63; Mark 5:7
• 7. See James 2:19

Footnotes

• [a]. Or both