Acts 19:1-7
PAUL'S WORK AT EPHESUS. Acts 19:1 Paul's arrival at Ephesus:... [ Continue Reading ]
PAUL'S WORK AT EPHESUS. Acts 19:1 Paul's arrival at Ephesus:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT CAME TO PASS THAT, WHILE APOLLOS WAS AT CORIRITH, PAUL, HAVING PASSED THROUGH THE UPPER COASTS, CAME TO EPHESUS; AND FINDING CERTAIN DISCIPLES,... [ Continue Reading ]
HE SAID UNTO THEM, HAVE YE RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST SINCE YE BELIEVED? AND THEY SAID UNTO HIM, WE HAVE NOT SO MUCH AS HEARD WHETHER THERE BE ANY HOLY GHOST.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, UNTO WHAT, THEN, WERE YE BAPTIZED? AND THEY SAID, UNTO JOHN'S BAPTISM.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN SAID PAUL, JOHN VERILY BAPTIZED WITH THE BAPTISM OF REPENTANCE, SAYING UNTO THE PEOPLE THAT THEY SHOULD BELIEVE ON HIM WHICH SHOULD COME AFTER HIM, THAT IS, ON CHRIST JESUS.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN THEY HEARD THIS, THEY WERE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN PAUL HAD LAID HIS HANDS UPON THEM, THE HOLY GHOST CAME ON THEM; AND THEY SPAKE WITH TONGUES' AND PROPHESIED... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ALL THE MEN WERE ABOUT TWELVE. While Apollos was in Corinth, having made the voyage across the Aegean after his stay in Ephesus, Paul, having finished his visitation trip in the upper, the mountainous, districts of Asia Minor, came down to Ephesus. Apparently Paul did not take the main road from... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE WENT INTO THE SYNAGOGUE, AND SPAKE BOLDLY FOR THE SPACE OF THREE MONTHS, DISPUTING AND PERSUADING THE THINGS CONCERNING THE KINGDOM OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
The success of the Gospel:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WHEN DIVERS WERE HARDENED AND BELIEVED NOT, BUT SPAKE EVIL OF THAT WAY BEFORE THE MULTITUDE, HE DEPARTED FROM THEM, AND SEPARATED THE DISCIPLES, DISPUTING DAILY IN THE SCHOOL OF ONE TYRANNUS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THIS CONTINUED BY THE SPACE OF TWO YEARS, SO THAT ALL THEY WHICH DWELT IN ASIA HEARD THE WORD OF THE LORD JESUS, BOTH JEWS AND GREEKS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND GOD WROUGHT SPECIAL MIRACLES BY THE HANDS OF PAUL,... [ Continue Reading ]
SO THAT FROM HIS BODY WERE BROUGHT UNTO THE SICK HANDKERCHIEFS OR APRONS, AND THE DISEASES DEPARTED FROM THEM, AND THE EVIL SPIRITS WENT OUT OF THEM. Also in Ephesus Paul followed his usual method of going into the synagogue of the Jews first and making a sincere attempt to win them for the kingdom... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN CERTAIN OF THE VAGABOND JEWS, EXORCISTS, TOOK UPON THEM TO CALL OVER THEM WHICH HAD EVIL SPIRITS THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS, SAYING, WE ADJURE YOU BY JESUS WHOM PAUL PREACHETH.... [ Continue Reading ]
The encounter with the exorcists:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THERE WERE SEVEN SONS OF ONE SCEVA, A JEW AND CHIEF OF THE PRIESTS, WHICH DID SO.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE EVIL SPIRIT ANSWERED AND SAID, JESUS I KNOW, AND PAUL I KNOW; BUT WHO ARE YEP... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE MAN IN WHOM THE EVIL SPIRIT WAS LEAPED ON THEM, AND OVERCAME THEM, AND PREVAILED AGAINST THEM, SO THAT THEY FLED OUT OF THAT HOUSE NAKED AND WOUNDED.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THIS WAS KNOWN TO ALL THE JEWS AND GREEKS ALSO DWELLING AT EPHESUS; AND FEAR FELL ON THEM ALL, AND THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS WAS MAGNIFIED. The success of Paul in expelling demons made a great impression upon some Jewish exorcists that were in Ephesus at that time. It seems that this form of de... [ Continue Reading ]
AND MANY THAT BELIEVED CAME AND CONFESSED, AND SHOWED THEIR DEEDS.... [ Continue Reading ]
A further result of this event:... [ Continue Reading ]
MANY OF THEM ALSO WHICH USED CURIOUS ARTS BROUGHT THEIR BOOKS TOGETHER, AND BURNED THEM BEFORE ALL MEN; AND THEY COUNTED THE PRICE OF THEM, AND FOUND IT FIFTY THOUSAND PIECES OF SILVER.... [ Continue Reading ]
SO MIGHTILY GREW THE WORD OF GOD AND PREVAILED. The beating which the exorcists received in consequence of their unwarranted use of the name of Jesus had a good effect also upon the disciples that had come to faith, that had joined the congregation at Ephesus. The fear that Jesus was mightier than a... [ Continue Reading ]
AFTER THESE THINGS WERE ENDED, PAUL PURPOSED 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.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE TUMULT OF DEMETRIUS. Some plans of Paul:... [ Continue Reading ]
SO HE SENT INTO MACEDONIA TWO OF THEM THAT MINISTERED UNTO HIM, TIMOTHEUS AND ERASTUS; BUT HE HIMSELF STAYED IN ASIA FOR A SEASON. After these things had been accomplished, after the Gospel had scored this great victory over the powers of darkness and over the hearts of men, Paul made up his mind, n... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SAME TIME THERE AROSE NO SMALL STIR ABOUT THAT WAY.... [ Continue Reading ]
The speech of Demetrius:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR A CERTAIN MAN NAMED DEMETRIUS, A SILVERSMITH, WHICH MADE SILVER SHRINES FOR DIANA, BROUGHT NO SMALL GAIN UNTO THE CRAFTSMEN;... [ Continue Reading ]
WHOM HE CALLED TOGETHER WITH THE WORKMEN OF LIKE OCCUPATION AND SAID, SIRS, YE KNOW THAT BY THIS CRAFT WE HAVE OUR WEALTH.... [ Continue Reading ]
MOREOVER, YE SEE AND HEAR THAT NOT ALONE AT EPHESUS, BUT ALMOST THROUGHOUT ALL ASIA THIS PAUL HATH PERSUADED AND TURNED AWAY MUCH PEOPLE, SAYING THAT THEY BE NO GODS WHICH ARE MADE WITH HANDS,... [ Continue Reading ]
SO THAT NOT ONLY THIS OUR CRAFT IS IN DANGER TO BE SET AT NAUGHT, BUT ALSO THAT THE TEMPLE OF THE GREAT GODDESS DIANA SHOULD BE DESPISED, AND HER MAGNIFICENCE SHOULD BE DESTROYED, WHOM ALL ASIA AND THE WORLD WORSHIPETH. At that same time, when the apostle had sent Timothy and Erastus ahead to Macedo... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY HEARD THESE SAYINGS, THEY WERE FULL OF WRATH AND CRIED OUT, SAYING, GREAT IS DIANA OF THE EPHESIANS!... [ Continue Reading ]
The effect of the speech:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WHOLE CITY WAS FILLED WITH CONFUSION; AND HAVING CAUGHT GAIUS AND ARISTARCHUS, MEN OF MACEDONIA, PAUL'S COMPANIONS IN TRAVEL, THEY RUSHED WITH ONE ACCORD INTO THE THEATER.... [ Continue Reading ]
And when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the disciples suffered him not. v. 31. AND CERTAIN OF THE CHIEFS OF ASIA, WHICH WERE HIS FRIENDS, SENT UNTO HIM, DESIRING HIM THAT HE WOULD NOT ADVENTURE HIMSELF INTO THE THEATER.... [ Continue Reading ]
SOME THEREFORE CRIED ONE THING, AND SOME ANOTHER; FOR THE ASSEMBLY WAS CONFUSED, AND THE MORE PART KNEW NOT WHEREFORE THEY WERE COME TOGETHER.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY DREW ALEXANDER OUT OF THE MULTITUDE, THE JEWS PUTTING HIM FORWARD. AND ALEXANDER BECKONED WITH THE HAND, AND WOULD HAVE MADE HIS DEFENSE UNTO THE PEOPLE.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WHEN THEY KNEW THAT HE WAS A JEW, ALL WITH ONE VOICE, ABOUT THE SPACE OF TWO HOURS, CRIED OUT, GREAT IS DIANA OF THE EPHESIANS! If Demetrius intended to kindle a fire, he certainly was successful beyond his design. No sooner had he closed his speech than some member of the guild or some other pe... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THE TOWN CLERK HAD APPEASED THE PEOPLE, HE SAID, YE MEN OF EPHESUS, WHAT MAN IS THERE THAT KNOWETH NOT HOW THAT THE CITY OF THE EPHESIANS IS A WORSHIPER OF THE GREAT GODDESS DIANA, AND OF THE IMAGE WHICH FELL DOWN FROM JUPITER?... [ Continue Reading ]
The end of the riot:... [ Continue Reading ]
SEEING, THEN, THAT THESE THINGS CANNOT BE SPOKEN AGAINST, YE OUGHT TO BE QUIET, AND TO DO NOTHING RASHLY.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR YE HAVE BROUGHT HITHER THESE MEN, WHICH ARE NEITHER ROBBERS OF CHURCHES, NOR YET BLASPHEMERS OF YOUR GODDESS.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE, IF DEMETRIUS, AND THE CRAFTSMEN WHICH ARE WITH HIM, HAVE A MATTER AGAINST ANY MAN, THE LAW IS OPEN, AND THERE ARE DEPUTIES; LET THEM IMPLEAD ONE ANOTHER.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT IF YE ENQUIRE ANYTHING CONCERNING OTHER MATTERS, IT SHALL BE DETERMINED IN A LAWFUL ASSEMBLY.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WE ARE IN DANGER TO BE CALLED IN QUESTION FOR THIS DAY'S UPROAR, THERE BEING NO CAUSE WHEREBY WE MAY GIVE AN ACCOUNT OF THIS CONCOURSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE HAD THUS SPOKEN, HE DISMISSED THE ASSEMBLY. With two hours' continuous yelling, the fury of the mob had spent itself, its members were exhausted. And now the secretary of the city had no difficulty in quieting the people. "He was the most influential person in Ephesus, for not only were... [ Continue Reading ]