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he consented not;
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But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh
in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.
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And
when he had landed at Caesarea, and gone up, and saluted the church, he went down to Antioch.
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And after he had spent some time
there,
he departed, and went over
all
the country of Galatia
and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples.
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And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man,
and
mighty in the
scriptures, came to Ephesus.
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This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent
in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of
John.
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And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had
heard, they took him unto
them,
and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.
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And
when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive
him: who, when he was come, helped them much which had believed through grace:
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For he
mightily convinced the Jews,
and that
publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.
CHAPTER 19
And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper
coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,
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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.
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And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they
said, Unto John’s baptism.
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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.
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When they heard
this,
they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
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And when
Paul had laid
his
hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues,
and prophesied.
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And all the men were about twelve.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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And God wrought special miracles by
the hands of Paul:
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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.
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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.
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And there were seven sons of
one
Sceva, a Jew,
and
chief of the priests, which did so.
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And the
evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?
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And the man in
whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that
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