Gevurot 19:18

18 And many of the ones having come to emunah were making vidduy of their ma’asim, disclosing them.

Gevurot 19:18 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 19:18

And many that believed
In Jesus Christ, whose name was spoken of with great respect, and which spread fear in every person:

came;
to the apostle:

and confessed;
their sins; and acknowledged what a wicked life they had led:

and showed their deeds;
their former evil deeds, which they had been guilty of; one copy reads, "their sins"; see ( Matthew 3:6 ) .

Gevurot 19:18 In-Context

16 And the ish in whom was the ruach hara’ah leaped upon them and subdued all [shivah] of them, and overpowered them, so that they fled, naked and wounded, from the bais.

17 And this became known to all the Yehudim and also the Yevanim inhabiting Ephesus, and pachad (terror) fell upon all of them, and they were exalting haShem of Adoneinu Yehoshua.

18 And many of the ones having come to emunah were making vidduy of their ma’asim, disclosing them.

19 And a number of the ones who had practiced kishshuf (magic, sorcery) brought together their occult sfarim and were burning them publicly; and they added up the price of these occult sfarim, and they found it to be fifty thousand silver pieces.

20 So the dvar Hashem, the Besuras HaGeulah, was growing with ko’ach and was prevailing.