Handelingen 19:12

12 Alzo dat ook van zijn lijf op de kranken gedragen werden de zweetdoeken of gordeldoeken, en dat de ziekten van hen weken, en de boze geesten van hen uitvoeren.

Handelingen 19:12 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 19:12

So that from his body were brought unto the sick
The Ethiopic version renders it, "from the extremity", or "border of his garment"; and the Syriac version, "from the garments which were upon his body"; were brought and put upon the sick; that is, of the clothes which the apostle wore, some of them were taken and carried to sick persons, and used by them: particularly "handkerchiefs" or "aprons"; the former were such as he might use to wipe his face with, and remove sweat, or any filth from the body; and the latter, what he might wear as a mechanic, when working at his trade:

and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out
of them;
who were afflicted and possessed with them; these were some of the special and uncommon miracles wrought by the hands of the apostle, and which were wrought in an uncommon way; and which most clearly showed that they were wrought by a divine power.

Handelingen 19:12 In-Context

10 En dit geschiedde twee jaren lang, alzo dat allen, die in Azie woonden, het Woord van den Heere Jezus hoorden, beiden Joden en Grieken.

11 En God deed ongewone krachten door de handen van Paulus;

12 Alzo dat ook van zijn lijf op de kranken gedragen werden de zweetdoeken of gordeldoeken, en dat de ziekten van hen weken, en de boze geesten van hen uitvoeren.

13 En sommigen van de omzwervende Joden, zijnde duivel bezweerders, hebben zich onderwonden den Naam van den Heere Jezus te noemen over degenen, die boze geesten hadden, zeggende: Wij bezweren u bij Jezus, Dien Paulus predikt!

14 Dezen nu waren zekere zeven zonen van Sceva, een Joodsen overpriester, die dit deden.