5. When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
6. And when Paul laid [his] hands on them, the holy Spirit came upon them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied.
7. Altogether there were about twelve men.
8. He entered the synagogue, and for three months debated boldly with persuasive arguments about the kingdom of God.
9. But when some in their obstinacy and disbelief disparaged the Way before the assembly, he withdrew and took his disciples with him and began to hold daily discussions in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.
10. This continued for two years with the result that all the inhabitants of the province of Asia heard the word of the Lord, Jews and Greeks alike.
11. So extraordinary were the mighty deeds God accomplished at the hands of Paul
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.”