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This went on for two years; so that everyone, both Jews and Greeks, living in the province of Asia heard the message about the Lord.
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God did extraordinary miracles through Sha'ul.
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For instance, handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were brought to sick people; they would recover from their ailments; and the evil spirits would leave them.
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Then some of the Jewish exorcists who traveled from place to place tried to make use of the name of the Lord Yeshua in connection with people who had evil spirits. They would say, "I exorcise you by the Yeshua that Sha'ul is proclaiming!"
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One time, seven sons of a Jewish cohen gadol named Skeva were doing this;
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and the evil spirit answered them. It said, "Yeshua I know. And Sha'ul I recognize. But you? Who are you?"
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Then the man with the evil spirit fell upon them, overpowered them and gave them such a beating that they ran from the house, naked and bleeding.
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When all this became known to the residents of Ephesus, fear fell on all of them, Jews and Greeks alike; and the name of the Lord Yeshua came to be held in high regard.
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Many of those who had earlier made professions of faith now came and admitted publicly their evil deeds;
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and a considerable number of those who had engaged in occult practices threw their scrolls in a pile and burned them in public. When they calculated the value of the scrolls, it came to fifty thousand drachmas.
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Thus the message about the Lord continued in a powerful way to grow in influence.