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A charlatan Jewish "exorcist" at Ephesus ACT 19:13-17

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  • Acts 19:13

    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 adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.”

  • Acts 19:14

    There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did this.

  • Acts 19:15

    The evil spirit answered, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?”

  • Acts 19:16

    The man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

  • Acts 19:17

    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.

From Nave’s Topical Bible (public domain).