Acts 19

1While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus and found certain disciples.Cross-references: Acts 18:1 · Acts 18:19 · Acts 18:23 · 1Cor 1:12 · 1Cor 3:4 · 1Cor 16:12

2He said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” They said to him, “No, we haven’t even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”Cross-references: 1Sam 3:7 · John 7:39 · Acts 2:17 · Acts 2:38 · Acts 8:15 · Acts 10:44 · +6 more

3He said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John’s baptism.”Cross-references: Matt 3:1 · Matt 28:19 · Luke 3:1 · Acts 8:16 · Acts 18:25 · 1Cor 12:13

4Paul said, “John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Christ Jesus.”Cross-references: Matt 3:11 · Matt 11:3 · Matt 21:25 · Mark 1:1 · Luke 1:76 · Luke 3:16 · +9 more

5When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.Cross-references: Acts 2:38 · Acts 8:12 · Acts 8:16 · Acts 10:48 · Rom 6:3 · 1Cor 1:13 · +1 more

6When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them and they spoke with other languages and prophesied.Cross-references: Mark 16:17 · Acts 2:4 · Acts 6:6 · Acts 8:17 · Acts 9:17 · Acts 10:45 · +6 more

7They were about twelve men in all.

8He entered into the synagogue and spoke boldly for a period of three months, reasoning and persuading about the things concerning God’s Kingdom.Cross-references: Acts 1:3 · Acts 9:20 · Acts 13:14 · Acts 13:46 · Acts 14:1 · Acts 17:1 · +7 more

9But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.Cross-references: 2Ki 17:14 · 2Chr 30:8 · 2Chr 36:16 · Neh 9:16 · Neh 9:29 · Ps 95:8 · +32 more

10This continued for two years, so that all those who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.Cross-references: Acts 16:6 · Acts 18:4 · Acts 18:11 · Acts 19:8 · Acts 19:22 · Acts 19:26 · +13 more

11God worked special miracles by the hands of Paul,Cross-references: Mark 16:17 · John 14:12 · Acts 5:12 · Acts 8:13 · Acts 14:3 · Acts 15:12 · +4 more

12so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out.Cross-references: 2Ki 4:29 · 2Ki 13:20 · Mark 16:17 · Acts 5:15

13But some of the itinerant Jews, exorcists, took on themselves to invoke over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, “We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.”Cross-references: Gen 4:12 · Gen 4:14 · Josh 6:26 · 1Sam 14:24 · 1Ki 22:16 · Ps 109:10 · +7 more

14There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did this.

15The evil spirit answered, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?”Cross-references: Gen 3:1 · 1Ki 22:21 · Matt 8:29 · Mark 1:24 · Mark 1:34 · Mark 5:9 · +3 more

16The man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.Cross-references: Mark 5:3 · Mark 5:15 · Luke 8:29 · Luke 8:35

17This became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived at Ephesus. Fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.Cross-references: Lev 10:3 · 1Sam 6:20 · 2Sam 6:9 · Ps 64:9 · Luke 1:65 · Luke 7:16 · +12 more

18Many also of those who had believed came, confessing and declaring their deeds.Cross-references: Lev 16:21 · Lev 26:40 · Job 33:27 · Ps 32:5 · Prov 28:13 · Jer 3:13 · +5 more

19Many of those who practiced magical arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. They counted their price, and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver.Cross-references: Gen 35:4 · Ex 7:11 · Ex 7:22 · Ex 32:20 · Deut 7:25 · Deut 18:10 · +14 more

20So the word of the Lord was growing and becoming mighty.Cross-references: Isa 55:11 · Acts 6:7 · Acts 12:24 · 2Thess 3:1

21Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the Spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”Cross-references: Lam 3:37 · Acts 16:6 · Acts 18:12 · Acts 18:21 · Acts 20:1 · Acts 20:16 · +19 more

22Having sent into Macedonia two of those who served him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.Cross-references: Acts 13:5 · Acts 16:1 · Acts 16:3 · Acts 16:9 · Acts 18:5 · Acts 19:10 · +9 more

23About that time there arose no small disturbance concerning the Way.Cross-references: Acts 9:2 · Acts 18:26 · Acts 19:9 · Acts 22:4 · Acts 24:14 · Acts 24:22 · +2 more

24For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen,Cross-references: Isa 56:11 · Acts 16:16 · Acts 16:19 · Acts 19:27 · Acts 19:34 · 1Tim 6:9

25whom he gathered together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, “Sirs, you know that by this business we have our wealth.Cross-references: Hos 4:8 · Hos 12:7 · Acts 16:19 · 2Pet 2:3 · Rev 18:3 · Rev 18:11

26You see and hear that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods that are made with hands.Cross-references: Deut 4:28 · Ps 115:4 · Ps 135:15 · Isa 44:10 · Isa 46:5 · Jer 10:3 · +15 more

27Not only is there danger that this our trade come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be counted as nothing and her majesty destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worships.”Cross-references: Zeph 2:11 · Matt 23:13 · Acts 19:21 · 1Tim 6:5 · 1John 5:19 · Rev 13:3 · +1 more

28When they heard this they were filled with anger, and cried out, saying, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”Cross-references: 1Sam 5:3 · 1Ki 18:26 · Ps 2:2 · Isa 41:5 · Jer 50:38 · Acts 7:54 · +7 more

29The whole city was filled with confusion, and they rushed with one accord into the theater, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul’s companions in travel.Cross-references: Acts 16:9 · Acts 17:8 · Acts 19:22 · Acts 19:32 · Acts 20:4 · Acts 20:34 · +9 more

30When Paul wanted to enter in to the people, the disciples didn’t allow him.Cross-references: 2Sam 18:2 · 2Sam 21:17 · Acts 14:14 · Acts 17:22 · Acts 21:39

31Certain also of the Asiarchs, being his friends, sent to him and begged him not to venture into the theater.Cross-references: Prov 16:7 · Acts 16:6 · Acts 19:10 · Acts 21:12

32Some therefore cried one thing, and some another, for the assembly was in confusion. Most of them didn’t know why they had come together.Cross-references: Matt 11:7 · Luke 7:24 · Acts 19:29 · Acts 19:40 · Acts 21:34

33They brought Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. Alexander beckoned with his hand, and would have made a defense to the people.Cross-references: Luke 1:22 · Acts 12:17 · Acts 13:16 · Acts 21:40 · Acts 24:10 · Acts 26:1 · +3 more

34But when they perceived that he was a Jew, all with one voice for a time of about two hours cried out, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”Cross-references: 1Ki 18:26 · Matt 6:7 · Acts 16:20 · Acts 19:26 · Acts 19:28 · Rom 2:22 · +1 more

35When the town clerk had quieted the multitude, he said, “You men of Ephesus, what man is there who doesn’t know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great goddess Artemis, and of the image which fell down from Zeus?Cross-references: Acts 14:12 · Acts 18:19 · Acts 19:26 · Eph 2:12 · 2Thess 2:10 · 1Tim 4:2

36Seeing then that these things can’t be denied, you ought to be quiet and to do nothing rash.Cross-references: Prov 14:29 · Prov 25:8 · Acts 5:35

37For you have brought these men here, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of your goddess.Cross-references: Acts 25:8 · Rom 2:22 · 1Cor 10:32 · 2Cor 6:3

38If therefore Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a matter against anyone, the courts are open and there are proconsuls. Let them press charges against one another.Cross-references: Deut 17:8 · Acts 13:7 · Acts 18:14 · 1Cor 6:1

39But if you seek anything about other matters, it will be settled in the regular assembly.

40For indeed we are in danger of being accused concerning today’s riot, there being no cause. Concerning it, we wouldn’t be able to give an account of this commotion.”Cross-references: 1Ki 1:41 · Matt 26:5 · Acts 17:5 · Acts 20:1 · Acts 21:31 · Acts 21:38

41When he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.Cross-references: Ps 65:7 · Prov 15:1 · Eccl 9:17 · 2Cor 1:8