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Thencertainof the vagabondJews,exorcists, took upon them to callover them which hadevilspirits the name of the LordJesus,saying, We adjureyou by JesuswhomPaulpreacheth.
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And there weresevensons of one Sceva*, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which didso.
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And the evilspiritanswered and said, Jesus I know, andPaul I know; butwhoareye?
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And the maninwhom the evilspiritwasleapedonthem,andovercamethem, and prevailedagainstthem,so that they fled out ofthathousenakedandwounded.
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Andthiswasknown to all the JewsandGreeksalsodwelling at Ephesus;andfearfellonthemall,and the name of the LordJesus was magnified.
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Andmany that believedcame, and confessed, andshewedtheirdeeds.
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Many of them also which used curious artsbrought their bookstogether, and burned thembeforeall men: and they counted the price of them,andfound it fiftythousand pieces of silver.
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Afterthesethings were ended, Paulpurposedin the spirit, when he had passed throughMacedoniaandAchaia, to gotoJerusalem,saying, After*I have beenthere,ImustalsoseeRome.
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So he sentintoMacedoniatwo of them that ministered unto him,TimotheusandErastus; but he himselfstayedinAsia for a season.
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Andthesametime there arosenosmallstirabout that way.