Acts Chapter 19

• Acts 19:1
  Acts.
• Acts 19:2
  While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus and found certain disciples.
• Acts 19:3
  He said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” They said to him, “No, we haven’t even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”
• Acts 19:4
  He said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John’s baptism.”
• Acts 19:5
  Paul said, “John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, th...
• Acts 19:6
  When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
• Acts 19:7
  When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them and they spoke with other languages and prophesied.
• Acts 19:8
  They were about twelve men in all.
• Acts 19:9
  He entered into the synagogue and spoke boldly for a period of three months, reasoning and persuading about the things concerning God’s Kingdom.
• Acts 19:10
  But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them and separated the disciples, reasoni...
• Acts 19:11
  This continued for two years, so that all those who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.
• Acts 19:12
  God worked special miracles by the hands of Paul,
• Acts 19:13
  so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out.
• Acts 19:14
  But some of the itinerant Jews, exorcists, took on themselves to invoke over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, “We ad...
• Acts 19:15
  There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did this.
• Acts 19:16
  The evil spirit answered, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?”
• Acts 19:17
  The man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounde...
• Acts 19:18
  This became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived at Ephesus. Fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.
• Acts 19:19
  Many also of those who had believed came, confessing and declaring their deeds.
• Acts 19:20
  Many of those who practiced magical arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. They counted their price, and found it to b...
• Acts 19:21
  So the word of the Lord was growing and becoming mighty.
• Acts 19:22
  Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the Spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I...
• Acts 19:23
  Having sent into Macedonia two of those who served him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.
• Acts 19:24
  About that time there arose no small disturbance concerning the Way.
• Acts 19:25
  For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen,
• Acts 19:26
  whom he gathered together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, “Sirs, you know that by this business we have our wealth.
• Acts 19:27
  You see and hear that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are ...
• Acts 19:28
  Not only is there danger that this our trade come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be counted as nothing and...
• Acts 19:29
  When they heard this they were filled with anger, and cried out, saying, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
• Acts 19:30
  The whole city was filled with confusion, and they rushed with one accord into the theater, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Pau...
• Acts 19:31
  When Paul wanted to enter in to the people, the disciples didn’t allow him.
• Acts 19:32
  Certain also of the Asiarchs, being his friends, sent to him and begged him not to venture into the theater.
• Acts 19:33
  Some therefore cried one thing, and some another, for the assembly was in confusion. Most of them didn’t know why they had come together.
• Acts 19:34
  They brought Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. Alexander beckoned with his hand, and would have made a defense to the peop...
• Acts 19:35
  But when they perceived that he was a Jew, all with one voice for a time of about two hours cried out, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
• Acts 19:36
  When the town clerk had quieted the multitude, he said, “You men of Ephesus, what man is there who doesn’t know that the city of the Ephesians is temp...
• Acts 19:37
  Seeing then that these things can’t be denied, you ought to be quiet and to do nothing rash.
• Acts 19:38
  For you have brought these men here, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of your goddess.
• Acts 19:39
  If therefore Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a matter against anyone, the courts are open and there are proconsuls. Let them press c...
• Acts 19:40
  But if you seek anything about other matters, it will be settled in the regular assembly.
• Acts 19:41
  For indeed we are in danger of being accused concerning today’s riot, there being no cause. Concerning it, we wouldn’t be able to give an account of t...
• Acts 19:42
  When he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.