Acts 19:18-22

18 Many of those who believed now came and openly confessed what they had done.

19 A number who had practiced sorcery brought their scrolls together and burned them publicly. When they calculated the value of the scrolls, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas.^[a]

20 In this way the word of the Lord spread widely and grew in power.

21 After all this had happened, Paul decided^[b] to go to Jerusalem, passing through Macedonia and Achaia. “After I have been there,” he said, “I must visit Rome also.”

22 He sent two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia, while he stayed in the province of Asia a little longer.

Cross References

• 1. S Acts 13:48
• 2. Acts 6:7; Acts 12:24
• 3. Acts 20:16,22; Acts 21:4,12,15; Romans 15:25
• 4. S Acts 16:9
• 5. S Acts 18:12
• 6. Romans 15:24,28
• 7. Acts 13:5
• 8. S Acts 16:1
• 9. Romans 16:23; 2 Timothy 4:20
• 10. ver 10,26,27; S Acts 2:9

Footnotes

• [a] A drachma was a silver coin worth about a day’s wages.
• [b] Or "decided in the Spirit"