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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 1Ephesus; 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*thousand2pieces of silver.
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So3the word of the Lord4was growingmightily and prevailing.
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Nowafterthesethings were finished, Paulpurposed in the Spirit to 5go to Jerusalem6after he had passedthrough7Macedonia and 8Achaia, saying, "After I have beenthere, 9I mustalsoseeRome."
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And having sent into 10Macedoniatwo of 11those who ministered to him, 12Timothy and 13Erastus, he himselfstayed in 14Asia for a while.
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About that time there occurrednosmalldisturbanceconcerning15the Way.
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For a mannamedDemetrius, a silversmith, who madesilvershrines of Artemis, 16was bringingnolittlebusiness to the craftsmen;
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these he gatheredtogether with the workmen of similar trades, and said, "Men, you know that our prosperitydepends* upon thisbusiness.