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1 And it came to pass, that, while Apol­los was at Corinth, Paul hav­ing passed through the up­per coasts came to Eph­esus: and find­ing cer­tain dis­ci­ples, 2 He said unto them, Have ye re­ceived the Holy Ghost since ye be­lieved? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost. 3 And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye bap­tized? And they said, Unto John's bap­tism. 4 Then said Paul, John ver­i­ly bap­tized with the bap­tism of re­pen­tance, say­ing unto the peo­ple, that they should be­lieve on him which should come af­ter him, that is, on Christ Je­sus. 5 When they heard this, they were bap­tized in the name of the Lord Je­sus. 6 And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and proph­e­sied. 7 And all the men were about twelve. 8 And he went into the syn­a­gogue, and spake bold­ly for the space of three months, dis­put­ing and per­suad­ing the things con­cern­ing the king­dom of God. 9 But when divers were hard­ened, and be­lieved not, but spake evil of that way be­fore the mul­ti­tude, he de­part­ed from them, and sep­a­rat­ed the dis­ci­ples, dis­put­ing dai­ly in the school of one Tyran­nus. 10 And this con­tin­ued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Je­sus, both Jews and Greeks. 11 And God wrought spe­cial mir­a­cles by the hands of Paul: 12 So that from his body were brought unto the sick hand­ker­chiefs or aprons, and the dis­eases de­part­ed from them, and the evil spir­its went out of them. 13 Then cer­tain of the vagabond Jews, ex­or­cists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spir­its the name of the Lord Je­sus, say­ing, We ad­jure you by Je­sus whom Paul prea­cheth. 14 And there were sev­en sons of one Sce­va, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so. 15 And the evil spir­it an­swered and said, Je­sus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye? 16 And the man in whom the evil spir­it was leaped on them, and over­came them, and pre­vailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wound­ed. 17 And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Eph­esus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Je­sus was mag­ni­fied. 18 And many that be­lieved came, and con­fessed, and shewed their deeds. 19 Many of them also which used cu­ri­ous arts brought their books to­geth­er, and burned them be­fore all men: and they count­ed the price of them, and found it fifty thou­sand pieces of sil­ver. 20 So might­i­ly grew the word of God and pre­vailed. 21 Af­ter these things were end­ed, Paul pur­posed in the spir­it, when he had passed through Mace­do­nia and Acha­ia, to go to Jerusalem, say­ing, Af­ter I have been there, I must also see Rome. 22 So he sent into Mace­do­nia two of them that min­is­tered unto him, Tim­o­theus and Eras­tus; but he him­self stayed in Asia for a sea­son. 23 And the same time there arose no small stir about that way. 24 For a cer­tain man named Demetrius, a sil­ver­smith, which made sil­ver shrines for Di­ana, brought no small gain unto the crafts­men; 25 Whom he called to­geth­er with the work­men of like oc­cu­pa­tion, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth. 26 More­over ye see and hear, that not alone at Eph­esus, but al­most through­out all Asia, this Paul hath per­suad­ed and turned away much peo­ple, say­ing that they be no gods, which are made with hands: 27 So that not only this our craft is in dan­ger to be set at nought; but also that the tem­ple of the great god­dess Di­ana should be de­spised, and her mag­nif­i­cence should be de­stroyed, whom all Asia and the world wor­ship­peth. 28 And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, say­ing, Great is Di­ana of the Eph­esians. 29 And the whole city was filled with con­fu­sion: and hav­ing caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Mace­do­nia, Paul's com­pan­ions in trav­el, they rushed with one ac­cord into the the­atre. 30 And when Paul would have en­tered in unto the peo­ple, the dis­ci­ples suf­fered him not. 31 And cer­tain of the chief of Asia, which were his friends, sent unto him, de­sir­ing him that he would not ad­ven­ture him­self into the the­atre. 32 Some there­fore cried one thing, and some an­oth­er: for the as­sem­bly was con­fused; and the more part knew not where­fore they were come to­geth­er. 33 And they drew Alexan­der out of the mul­ti­tude, the Jews putting him for­ward. And Alexan­der beck­oned with the hand, and would have made his de­fence unto the peo­ple. 34 But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice about the space of two hours cried out, Great is Di­ana of the Eph­esians. 35 And when the town­clerk had ap­peased the peo­ple, he said, Ye men of Eph­esus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Eph­esians is a wor­ship­per of the great god­dess Di­ana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter? 36 See­ing then that these things can­not be spo­ken against, ye ought to be qui­et, and to do noth­ing rash­ly. 37 For ye have brought hith­er these men, which are nei­ther rob­bers of church­es, nor yet blas­phe­mers of your god­dess. 38 Where­fore if Demetrius, and the crafts­men which are with him, have a mat­ter against any man, the law is open, and there are deputies: let them im­plead one an­oth­er. 39 But if ye en­quire any thing con­cern­ing oth­er mat­ters, it shall be de­ter­mined in a law­ful as­sem­bly. 40 For we are in dan­ger to be called in ques­tion for this day's up­roar, there be­ing no cause where­by we may give an ac­count of this con­course. 41 And when he had thus spo­ken, he dis­missed the as­sem­bly.