WPNT(i)
1 And finding certain disciples
2 he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” So they said to him, “But we have not so much as heard that there is a Holy Spirit!”
3 So he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” So they said, “Into John’s baptism”.
4 So Paul said, “John indeed baptized with a baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe into the One who would come after him, that is, into Jesus, the Christ”.
5 So upon hearing this they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.
6 And as Paul laid his hands on them the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they started speaking languages and prophesying.
7 There were about twelve men in all.
8 During three months Paul kept going to the synagogue and speaking boldly, reasoning and persuading concerning the things of the Kingdom of God.
9 But when some became hardened and disobedient, maligning the Way before the crowd, he withdrew from them and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of a certain Tyrannus.
10 Now this continued for two years, so that all who lived in Asia, both Jews and Greeks, heard the word of the Lord Jesus.
11 Further, God kept working unusual miracles by the hands of Paul,
12 so that even handkerchiefs or aprons that he touched were applied to the sick, and the diseases left them and the wicked spirits went out from them.
13 Well some among the itinerant Jewish exorcists attempted to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had wicked spirits saying, “We adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches”.
14 In fact there were seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who were doing this.
15 But a particular wicked spirit reacted and said, “Jesus I know, and I am acquainted with Paul, but who are you?”
16 And the man in whom the wicked spirit was jumped on them and overpowered them; he was so much stronger that they ran out of that house naked and wounded.
17 Now this became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived in Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was being exalted.
18 And many of those who had believed started coming, confessing and disclosing their practices.
19 In fact, many of those who had practiced magic brought their books together and burned them up, in front of everybody (they had calculated their value and it totaled fifty thousand pieces of silver).
20 With power like that it was that the word of the Lord kept growing and prevailing.