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Acts 19:1-11 World Messianic Bible British Edition (WMBBE)

1. While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus and found certain disciples.

2. 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.”

3. He said, “Into what then were you immersed?”They said, “Into Yochanan’s immersion.”

4. Paul said, “Yochanan indeed immersed with the immersion of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Yeshua.”

5. When they heard this, they were immersed in the name of the Lord Yeshua.

6. When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them and they spoke with other languages and prophesied.

7. They were about twelve men in all.

8. He entered into the synagogue and spoke boldly for a period of three months, reasoning and persuading about the things concerning God’s Kingdom.

9. But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.

10. This continued for two years, so that all those who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord Yeshua, both Jews and Greeks.

11. God worked special miracles by the hands of Paul,

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