Acts:18-19
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After these things Paul departed from Athens ,
and came to Corinth ;
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And found a certain Jew named Aquila ,
born in Pontus ,
lately come from Italy ,
with his wife Priscilla ; (
because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome :)
and came unto them .
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And because he was of the same craft ,
he abode with them ,
and wrought :
for by their occupation they were tentmakers .
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And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath ,
and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks .
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And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia ,
Paul was pressed in the spirit ,
and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ .
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And when they opposed themselves ,
and blasphemed ,
he shook his raiment ,
and said unto them ,
Your blood be upon your own heads ;
I am clean :
from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles .
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And he departed thence ,
and entered into a certain man '
s house ,
named Justus ,
one that worshipped God ,
whose house joined hard to the synagogue .
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And Crispus ,
the chief ruler of the synagogue ,
believed on the Lord with all his house ;
and many of the Corinthians hearing believed ,
and were baptized .
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Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision ,
Be not afraid ,
but speak ,
and hold not thy peace :
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For I am with thee ,
and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee :
for I have much people in this city .
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And he continued there a year and six months ,
teaching the word of God among them .
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And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia ,
the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul ,
and brought him to the judgment seat ,
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Saying ,
This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law .
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And when Paul was now about to open his mouth ,
Gallio said unto the Jews ,
If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness ,
O ye Jews ,
reason would that I should bear with you :
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But if it be a question of words and names ,
and of your law ,
look ye to it ;
for I will be no judge of such matters .
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And he drave them from the judgment seat .
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Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes ,
the chief ruler of the synagogue ,
and beat him before the judgment seat .
And Gallio cared for none of those things .
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And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while ,
and then took his leave of the brethren ,
and sailed thence into Syria ,
and with him Priscilla and Aquila ;
having shorn his head in Cenchrea :
for he had a vow .
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And he came to Ephesus ,
and left them there :
but he himself entered into the synagogue ,
and reasoned with the Jews .
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When they desired him to tarry longer time with them ,
he consented not ;
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But bade them farewell ,
saying ,
I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem :
but I will return again unto you ,
if God will .
And he sailed from Ephesus .
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And when he had landed at Caesarea ,
and gone up ,
and saluted the church ,
he went down to Antioch .
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And after he had spent some time there ,
he departed ,
and went over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order ,
strengthening all the disciples .
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And a certain Jew named Apollos ,
born at Alexandria ,
an eloquent man ,
and mighty in the scriptures ,
came to Ephesus .
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This man was instructed in the way of the Lord ;
and being fervent in the spirit ,
he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord ,
knowing only the baptism of John .
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And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue :
whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard ,
they took him unto them ,
and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly .
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And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia ,
the brethren wrote ,
exhorting the disciples to receive him :
who ,
when he was come ,
helped them much which had believed through grace :
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For he mightily convinced the Jews ,
and that publickly ,
shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ .
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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 ,
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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 .
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And he said unto them ,
Unto what then were ye baptized ?
And they said ,
Unto John '
s baptism .
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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 .
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When they heard this ,
they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus .
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And when Paul had laid his hands upon them ,
the Holy Ghost came on them ;
and they spake with tongues ,
and prophesied .
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And all the men were about twelve .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul :
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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 .
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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 .
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And there were seven sons of one Sceva ,
a Jew ,
and chief of the priests ,
which did so .
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And the evil spirit answered and said ,
Jesus I know ,
and Paul I know ;
but who are ye ?
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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 .
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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 .
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And many that believed came ,
and confessed ,
and shewed their deeds .
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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 .
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So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed .
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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 .
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So he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto him ,
Timotheus and Erastus ;
but he himself stayed in Asia for a season .
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And the same time there arose no small stir about that way .
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For a certain man named Demetrius ,
a silversmith ,
which made silver shrines for Diana ,
brought no small gain unto the craftsmen ;
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Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation ,
and said ,
Sirs ,
ye know that by this craft we have our wealth .
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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 :
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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 .
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And when they heard these sayings ,
they were full of wrath ,
and cried out ,
saying ,
Great is Diana of the Ephesians .
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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 .
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And when Paul would have entered in unto the people ,
the disciples suffered him not .
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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 .
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Some therefore cried one thing ,
and some another :
for the assembly was confused ;
and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 ?
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Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against ,
ye ought to be quiet ,
and to do nothing rashly .
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For ye have brought hither these men ,
which are neither robbers of churches ,
nor yet blasphemers of your goddess .
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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 .
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But if ye enquire any thing concerning other matters ,
it shall be determined in a lawful assembly .
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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 .
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And when he had thus spoken ,
he dismissed the assembly .
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And after the uproar was ceased ,
Paul called unto him the disciples ,
and embraced them ,
and departed for to go into Macedonia .