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,
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.