Would-be Exorcists

11 And God was performing extraordinary[a] miracles by the hands of Paul, 12 so that even handkerchiefs or work aprons that had touched his skin[b] were carried away to those who were sick, and their[c] diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them.[d] 13 But some itinerant Jewish exorcists also attempted to pronounce the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “I adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches!”

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 19:11 Literally “not the ordinary”
  2. Acts 19:12 Literally “from his skin”
  3. Acts 19:12 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
  4. Acts 19:12 *The words “of them” are not in the Greek text but are implied