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1so that handkerchiefsoraprons were evencarried from his body to the sick, and the diseasesleft them and 2the evilspiritswent out.
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But alsosome of the Jewish3exorcists, who went from place to place, attempted to nameoverthose who had the evilspirits the name of the LordJesus, saying, "I adjure you by JesuswhomPaulpreaches."
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Sevensons of oneSceva, a Jewishchiefpriest, were doingthis.
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And the evilspiritanswered and said to them, "I recognizeJesus, and I knowaboutPaul, but who are you?"
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And the man, in whom was the evilspirit, leaped on them and subduedall of them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that housenaked and wounded.
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Thisbecameknown to all, bothJews and Greeks, who lived in 4Ephesus; and fearfell upon them all and the name of the LordJesus was being magnified.
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Manyalso of those who had believed kept coming, confessing and disclosing their practices.
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And many of those who practicedmagicbrought their bookstogether and began burning them in the sight of everyone; and they counted up the price of them and found it fifty*thousand5pieces of silver.
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So6the word of the Lord7was growingmightily and prevailing.
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Nowafterthesethings were finished, Paulpurposed in the Spirit to 8go to Jerusalem9after he had passedthrough10Macedonia and 11Achaia, saying, "After I have beenthere, 12I mustalsoseeRome."
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And having sent into 13Macedoniatwo of 14those who ministered to him, 15Timothy and 16Erastus, he himselfstayed in 17Asia for a while.