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And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?

that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us,

and because he was of the same trade he stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade.

And when they opposed and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."

And they all seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the tribunal. But Gallio paid no attention to any of this.

And they came to Ephesus, and he left them there, but he himself went into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.

He began to speak boldly in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately.

And he said to them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" And they said, "No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit."

And he said, "Into what then were you baptized?" They said, "Into John's baptism."

And when Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began speaking in tongues and prophesying.

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

And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver.

When they heard this they were enraged and were crying out, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"

So the city was filled with the confusion, and they rushed together into the theater, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians who were Paul's companions in travel.

Now some cried out one thing, some another, for the assembly was in confusion, and most of them did not know why they had come together.

And they took the youth away alive, and were not a little comforted.

And when they came to him, he said to them: "You yourselves know how I lived among you the whole time from the first day that I set foot in Asia,

And there was much weeping on the part of all; they embraced Paul and kissed him,

being sorrowful most of all because of the word he had spoken, that they would not see his face again. And they accompanied him to the ship.

And having sought out the disciples, we stayed there for seven days. And through the Spirit they were telling Paul not to go on to Jerusalem.