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Acts 19:13

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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.”

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Acts 19:13 in other translations

But certain also of the strolling Jews, exorcists, took upon them to name over them that had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, I adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.

Acts 19:13 · American Standard Version

Acts 19:13 in context

  1. 11God worked special miracles by the hands of Paul,
  2. 12so 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.
  3. 13But 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.”
  4. 14There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did this.
  5. 15The evil spirit answered, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?”