13. Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists undertook to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul proclaims.”
14. Seven sons of a Jewish high priest named Sceva were doing this.
15. But the evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I recognize, but who are you?”
16. And the man in whom was the evil spirit leaped on them, mastered all of them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
17. And this became known to all the residents of Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks. And fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was extolled.
18. Also many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices.
19. And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver.
20. So the word of the Lord continued to increase and prevail mightily.
21. Now after these events Paul resolved in the Spirit to pass through Macedonia and Achaia and go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”
22. And having sent into Macedonia two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.
23. About that time there arose no little disturbance concerning the Way.
24. For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen.
25. These he gathered together, with the workmen in similar trades, and said, “Men, you know that from this business we have our wealth.