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But also some of the Jewish ^(C1)exorcists, who went from place to place, attempted to ^(F1)use the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had the evil spirits, saying, "I order you in the name of Jesus whom Paul preaches!"

Now there were seven sons of ^(F1)Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, doing this.

But the evil spirit responded and said to them, "I recognize Jesus, and I know of Paul, but who are you?"

And the man in whom was the evil spirit, pounced on them and subdued all of them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

This became known to all who lived in ^(C1)Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks; and fear fell upon them all and the name of the Lord Jesus was being magnified.

Also many of those who had believed kept coming, confessing and disclosing their practices.

And many of those who practiced magic brought their books together and began burning them in the sight of everyone; and they added up the prices of ^(F1)the books and found it to be fifty thousand ^(F2)(C1)pieces of silver.

So ^(F1)(C1)the word of the Lord ^(C2)was growing and prevailing mightily.