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 \v 1 While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul left  Phrygia and Galatia and went through Asia, and he came back to Ephesus. He met some people who said that they were believers.
 \v 2 He asked them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed God's message?" They answered, "No, we did not. We have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit."
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 \v 7 There were about twelve men whom Paul baptized and who received the Holy Spirit.
 
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 \v 8 For three months after that, Paul entered the Jewish meeting place in Ephesus on each Sabbath and taught  and persuaded people about Jesus and how God would show himself as king.
 \v 9 But some of the Jews would not believe the message and did not want to to hear it any more. They said many bad things about what Paul was teaching. So Paul left them and took the believers with him to meet in the meeting place of Tyrannus.
 \v 10 For two years Paul taught people there. In this way, most of  the Jews and non-Jews who lived in the region of Asia and he heard the message about the Lord Jesus.
 
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 \v 11 God also gave Paul the power to do miracles.
 \v 12 If those who were sick could not come to Paul, pieces of cloth that Paul touched would be taken and placed on the sick people. As a result, the sick people would become well, and the evil spirits would leave them.
 
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 \v 13 There were also some Jews who walked from town to town, and they commanded the evil spirits in those places to depart from people. Some of those Jews told the evil spirits to come out of people by saying "I command you to come out by the power of the Lord Jesus, the man whom Paul teaches about!"
 \v 14 There were seven men who were doing this. They were sons of a man named Sceva, a Jew, who called himself a chief priest.
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 \v 17 All the people who lived in Ephesus, both Jews and non-Jews, heard what had happened. They became afraid  because they saw that the man with the evil spirit was very strong. At the same time, they honored the name of the Lord Jesus. 
 
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 \v 18 At that time, while other believers were listening, many believers told about the evil things that they had been doing.
 \v 19 Some of the people who were sorcerers took their scrolls that told how to work magic and burned them in a place where everyone could see them. When people added up how much the scrolls cost, it came to fifty thousand silver coins.
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 \v 22 He sent two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia. But Paul stayed in the city of Ephesus, in the province of Asia.
 
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 \v 23 Soon after that, people in Ephesus began to make a great amount of trouble because of Jesus and the teaching about him. 
 \v 24 There was a man there whose name was Demetrius. He made statues of the goddess Diana out of silver. Demetrius made a lot of money for all the  men who made and sold these idols.
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 \v 25 Demetrius called together the workmen who made the idols. He said to them, "Men, you know that we make a lot of money doing our work.
 
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 \v 30 Paul wanted to go into the theater to talk to the people, but the other believers would not let him go there.
 \v 31 Some city rulers who were friends of Paul heard what was happening. They sent someone to tell Paul not to go into the theater.
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 \v 32 The crowd of people in the theater kept shouting. Some shouted one thing, and some shouted something else. But most of them did not even know why they were meeting!
 
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 \v 34 But many of the non-Jewish people knew that Alexander was a Jew and knew that the Jews did not worship the goddess Diana. So the non-Jews shouted for two hours, "Great is the goddess Diana of the Ephesians!"
 
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 \v 35 Then one of the city rulers made the crowd stop shouting. He said to them, "My fellow citizens, everyone in the world knows  that the sacred image of our goddess Diana fell down from heaven!
 \v 36 Everyone knows that, and no one can say that these things are not true. So you should be quiet now. Do not do anything stupid.
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 \v 39 But if you want to ask about anything else, you should ask for your rulers to take care of it when those rulers come together.
 \v 40 This is not a good meeting! Take care of this trouble the right way because we do not want to go against the government. If the rulers asked me what you were all shouting about, I would not be able to give them a good answer."
 \v 41 That is what the city ruler said to the crowd. Then he told them all to go home, and they did go to their homes.
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