1It came to pass then, while Apollos was in Corinth, that Paul passed through the interior regions and came to Ephesus, and he found some disciples.2And he said to them, Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed? And they said to him, No, we have not even heard whether there is a Holy Spirit.3And he said, Into what then were you baptized? And they said, Into the baptism of John.4Then Paul said, John baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was coming after him, that is, in Jesus.5And when they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.6And when Paul laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied.7And there were about twelve men in all.8And he entered the synagogue and spoke boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading them about the kingdom of God.9But when some became hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he withdrew from them and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.10This continued for two years, so that all who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.11And God was performing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul.12So that even cloths or aprons that had touched his skin were carried away to the sick, and diseases left them and evil spirits came out.13Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists also attempted to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, "I adjure you by Jesus whom Paul proclaims."14And there were seven sons of a certain Sceva, a Jewish high priest, who were doing this.15But the evil spirit answered and said to them, Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?16And the man in whom the evil spirit was sprang upon them, overpowered them all, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.17And this became known to all the Jews and Greeks who lived in Ephesus, and fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was extolled.18Many also of those who had believed came, confessing and disclosing their practices.19And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all, and they counted the value of them and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver.20So the word of the Lord grew and prevailed mightily.21Now after these things were ended, Paul resolved in the Spirit to pass through Macedonia and Achaia and go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome.22And having sent into Macedonia two of those who ministered to him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a time.