But 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.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Acts 19:13 in context
Acts 19:10–16
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This continued for two years, so that all those who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.
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God worked special miracles by the hands of Paul,
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so 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.
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But 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.”
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There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did this.
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The evil spirit answered, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?”
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The 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.
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