1. While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul traveled through the interior regions and came to Ephesus. He found some disciples
2. and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed? ” “No,” they told him, “we haven’t even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”
3. “Then what baptism were you baptized with? ” he asked them.“With John’s baptism,” they replied.
4. Paul said, “John baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people that they should believe in the One who would come after him, that is, in Jesus.”
5. When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
6. And when Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began to speak in other languages and to prophesy.
7. Now there were about 12 men in all.
8. Then he entered the synagogue and spoke boldly over a period of three months, engaging in discussion and trying to persuade them about the things of the kingdom of God.
9. But when some became hardened and would not believe, slandering the Way in front of the crowd, he withdrew from them and met separately with the disciples, conducting discussions every day in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.
10. And this went on for two years, so that all the inhabitants of Asia, both Jews and Greeks, heard the message about the Lord.
11. God was performing extraordinary miracles by Paul’s hands,
12. so that even facecloths or work aprons that had touched his skin were brought to the sick, and the diseases left them, and the evil spirits came out of them.
13. Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists attempted to pronounce the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “I command you by the Jesus that Paul preaches! ”
14. Seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this.