12. that when face cloths or aprons that touched his skin were applied to the sick, their diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them.
13. Then some itinerant Jewish exorcists tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those with evil spirits, saying, “I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches.”
14. When the seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish high priest, tried to do this,
15. the evil spirit said to them in reply, “Jesus I recognize, Paul I know, but who are you?”
16. The person with the evil spirit then sprang at them and subdued them all. He so overpowered them that they fled naked and wounded from that house.
17. When this became known to all the Jews and Greeks who lived in Ephesus, fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was held in great esteem.
18. Many of those who had become believers came forward and openly acknowledged their former practices.
19. Moreover, a large number of those who had practiced magic collected their books and burned them in public. They calculated their value and found it to be fifty thousand silver pieces.
20. Thus did the word of the Lord continue to spread with influence and power.
21. When this was concluded, Paul made up his mind to travel through Macedonia and Achaia, and then to go on to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must visit Rome also.”
22. Then he sent to Macedonia two of his assistants, Timothy and Erastus, while he himself stayed for a while in the province of Asia.
23. About that time a serious disturbance broke out concerning the Way.