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.”
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.