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that they would seek God, if perhaps they might feel around for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;

and because he was of the same trade he stayed with them, and they worked together, for they were tent-makers by trade.

But when they resisted and blasphemed, he shook out his garments and said to them, "Your blood is on your own heads! I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."

Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, believed in the Lord together with his entire household; and many of the Corinthians, as they listened to Paul, were believing and being baptized.

But they all took hold of Sosthenes, the leader of the synagogue, and began beating him in front of the judgment seat. And yet Gallio was not concerned about any of these things.

They came to Ephesus, and he left them there. Now he himself entered the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.

and he began speaking boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained the way of God more accurately to him.

He said to them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" And they said to him, "On the contrary, we have not even heard if there is a Holy Spirit."

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

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

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.

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 the books and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver.

When they heard this and were filled with rage, they began shouting, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"

The city was filled with the confusion, and they rushed together into the theater, dragging along Gaius and Aristarchus, Paul's Macedonian traveling companions.

So then, some were shouting one thing and some another, for the assembly was in confusion and the majority did not know for what reason they had come together.

They took away the boy alive, and were greatly comforted.

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

And they all began to weep aloud and embraced Paul, and repeatedly kissed him,

grieving especially over the word which he had spoken, that they would not see his face again. And they were accompanying him to the ship.

After looking up the disciples, we stayed there for seven days; and they kept telling Paul, through the Spirit, not to set foot in Jerusalem.