12. 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.
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 Yeshua, saying, “We adjure you by Yeshua whom Paul preaches.”
14. There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did this.
15. The evil spirit answered, “Yeshua I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?”
16. 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 wounded.
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 Yeshua was magnified.
18. Many also of those who had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds.
19. 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 be fifty thousand pieces of silver.
20. So the word of the Lord was growing and becoming mighty.
21. 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 have been there, I must also see Rome.”
22. Having sent into Macedonia two of those who served him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.
23. About that time there arose no small disturbance concerning the Way.