Acts 19

Acts 19:1

• And it happened that while Apollos

• was in
• was at
• was in the

• Corinth,
• city of Corinth,

• Paul
• Paul,

• traveled through the
• went through the
• passed through the
• having passed through the
• was visiting some

• interior
• inland
• upper
• hill
• interior of the

• regions and
• country and
• country to

• came to
• arrived at

• Ephesus. There
• Ephesus.
• Ephesus
• Ephesus where
• Ephesus, where
• Ephesus. And
• Ephesus and
• Ephesus, and

• He found some
• he found some
• He met some
• he met some
• found some

• disciples,
• disciples
• disciples.
• followers.
• followers

Acts 19:2

• and asked
• he said to
• He said to
• He asked
• and said to
• Paul asked
• And he said to

• them,
• them, ‘
• them, “

• Did you receive the

• holy
• Holy

• spirit when
• Spirit when

• you

• believed?”
• believed?’
• believed?’ and
• believed?” And
• believed? And
• became believers?’
• became believers?”
• became believers?” “No,”
• became believers?’ ‘No,’

• they
• They

• said to
• answered, “
• answered
• answered. “
• replied, “
• replied, ‘
• said, ‘
• said, “
• answered, “No,
• answered, ‘No,
• said, “No,
• replied, “No,

• We
• we
• him, “We
• him, “No, we

• have
• did
• ’ve

• not
• never
• n’t

• even
• so much as

• heard that there is a
• heard of a
• heard whether there is a

• holy
• Holy

• spirit. ”’
• Spirit!”
• Spirit.”
• Spirit;’
• Spirit.’

Acts 19:3

• and he
• And he
• He
• So Paul
• Paul
• Then he

• said, Into what
• said, “Into what
• asked, ‘
• asked
• asked, “

• then
• Then how
• then, how

• were you

• baptized?” And
• baptized? And
• baptized?’ and
• baptized?”

• they
• They

• answered, “John’s

• baptism.
• baptism.”
• baptism.’

Acts 19:4

• Paul
• Then Paul
• Paul then
• And Paul

• said, ‘
• said, “

• John
• John indeed

• baptized with a
• baptized with the
• ’s

• baptism of

• repentance.
• repentance,

• telling the
• He told the

• people to believe in the one who

• was to
• was

• come after
• coming after

• him, that
• him, and that one
• him—that

• is, in
• is
• is,

• Jesus.”
• Jesus.’

Acts 19:5

• When they heard this,
• On hearing this,
• On hearing this
• And when they heard this,

• they were

• baptized in the
• baptized into the
• baptised in the

• name of the Lord

• Jesus;
• Jesus.
• Jesus,

Acts 19:6

• And when Paul
• and when Paul
• When Paul
• Then Paul
• Paul

• laid
• placed
• had laid

• his

• hands on
• hands upon

• them. The
• them, the
• them the
• them, and the
• them.

• holy
• Holy
• Then the Holy

• spirit
• Spirit

• came on
• came upon

• them and
• them; and
• them, and
• them.
• them;

• they
• They

• spoke in
• began to speak in
• spoke with
• began to speak with
• began to speak with ‘
• began speaking
• began speaking in

• tongues and
• tongues and to
• tongues’ and to
• different languages and
• other languages and

• prophesied.
• prophesied—
• prophesying.
• prophesy.

Acts 19:7

• There were about twelve
• There were about twelve of
• They were about twelve
• Altogether there were about twelve
• Altogether, there were about twelve

• men in all.
• men.
• them in all.

Acts 19:8

• Paul
• And he
• He

• went into the
• entered the

• synagogue, and for three
• synagogue and for three

• months

• spoke
• spoke out

• boldly,

• reasoning and persuading
• arguing
• arguing and

• them about the
• persuasively about the
• pleading about the

• kingdom of
• Kingdom of

• God,
• God.
• God;

Acts 19:9

• But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the

• congregation,
• multitude,

• he

• left
• departed from
• withdrew from

• them and
• them, and
• them,
• them. He

• took the
• took away the
• taking the
• separated the

• disciples,
• disciples with him, and
• disciples with him and

• reasoning daily in the

• lecture hall of
• school of

• Tyrannus.

Acts 19:10

• This went on for two
• He did this for two

• years,

• so that all the
• so that all who

• inhabitants of
• residents of
• lived in
• people who lived in the province of

• Asia, both
• Asia—both
• Asia,

• Jews and

• Greeks,
• Greeks—

• heard the

• Word of the
• word of the

• Lord.

Acts 19:11

• God
• And God

• did
• was performing
• worked
• was doing

• extraordinary
• unusual
• special
• amazing

• miracles by the
• miracles through
• miracles by

• hands of Paul:
• hands of Paul
• hands of Paul,
• Paul.
• Paul,
• Paul’s hands.
• Paul’s hands;
• Paul’s hands,

Acts 19:12

• so that even

• handkerchiefs or
• handkerchiefs and

• aprons that
• aprons
• aprons which

• had touched his skin were brought to the

• sick,
• sick, and

• their diseases left

• them, and the
• them and the
• them and

• evil spirits

• came out of
• left
• went out of
• went

• them.
• out.

Acts 19:13

• Then some of the
• Then some

• itinerant Jewish exorcists

• tried to
• attempted to

• use the
• invoke the
• pronounce the

• name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil

• spirits,
• spirits;

• saying, “

• I
• We

• adjure
• command
• order

• you by
• you by the
• you in the
• you, in the

• Jesus whom
• Jesus, whom
• Jesus that
• name of Jesus, whom
• name of Jesus, the One
• name of Jesus, the one

• Paul

• preaches!”
• preaches.”
• proclaims.’
• proclaims!”
• proclaims.”
• preaches about.”
• preaches about!”

Acts 19:14

• Seven sons of
• The seven sons of
• (Now seven sons of a

• Sceva, a
• man named Sceva, a

• Jewish
• Jewish high
• leading

• chief priest,
• priest,

• were

• doing this,
• doing this;
• doing this.
• doing this.)

Acts 19:15

• But the evil spirit
• But one time an evil spirit
• The evil spirit
• One day the evil spirit

• answered
• answered, ‘
• said to
• said to these
• answered them, “

• I
• them, “I
• Jews, “I

• know

• Jesus and
• Jesus. And
• Jesus! And
• Jesus, and
• Jesus.
• Jesus

• I

• know about
• know

• Paul, but who
• Paul. But who
• Paul; but who

• are

• you?
• you?”
• you?’

Acts 19:16

• Then the man with the
• And the man with the
• and the man with the

• evil spirit was leaped on

• them and
• them, and
• them,

• overpowered
• subdued all of

• them and
• them, and
• them all, and

• prevailed against
• overpowered

• them, so that they

• fled out of that
• fled out of the
• ran out of that

• house
• house,

• naked and

• wounded.
• battered.
• bleeding.

Acts 19:17

• This became
• When this became
• And this became

• known to all who
• known to

• lived in

• Ephesus, both
• Ephesus,
• Ephesus—

• Jews and

• Greeks;
• Greeks,
• Greeks.
• Greeks
• Greeks. And
• Greeks, and

• fear
• everyone
• Everyone

• fell upon
• was
• fell on

• them all, and the
• them all and the
• them all; and the
• awestruck, and the
• awestruck; and the
• them, and the

• name of the Lord Jesus was

• magnified.
• praised.
• exalted.

Acts 19:18

• Many also of those who
• many also of those who
• Also many of those who
• Many of those who
• And many who

• had

• believed
• become believers

• came
• came,
• kept coming,

• confessing, and
• confessing and

• disclosing
• declaring
• divulging

• their

• practices,
• practices;
• practices.
• deeds.

Acts 19:19

• And many of those who
• and many of those who
• And a number of those who
• Many of those who

• had practiced
• practiced

• magic
• magical

• arts

• brought
• collected

• their

• books
• scrolls

• together and burned

• them in
• them in the
• them up in the

• sight of all. And
• sight of all; and

• they

• calculated the
• counted the
• counted up the

• value of
• price of

• them and
• them, and

• found it to be fifty thousand

• pieces of
• pieces

• silver.

Acts 19:20

• So the word of the
• In this way the word of the

• Lord
• Lord spread

• grew mightily and
• widely and

• prevailed.

Acts 19:21

• After all this had happened, Paul decided to go to Jerusalem, passing through Macedonia and

• Achaia. “After
• Achaia. ‘After

• I

• have
• ’ve

• been
• been to

• there,”
• there,’

• he

• said, ’
• said, “

• Imust

• see
• visit

• Rome

• also.’
• also.”
• as well!”
• as well.’
• as well.”

Acts 19:22

• He
• So he

• sent Timothy and Erastus, two of his helpers, ahead to

• Macedonia. But
• Macedonia, but

• he himself stayed in Asia for a while.

Acts 19:23

• About that time there
• At that time a
• During that time there
• And about that time there

• was
• arose no
• great
• arose a
• was a

• serious
• small
• little
• disturbance
• great
• much
• major

• stir concerning the
• disturbance concerning the
• trouble because of the
• disturbance about the

• Way.

Acts 19:24

• There was a man
• For a man
• A man
• A silversmith
• There was a silversmith
• For a certain man

• named Demetrius, a

• silversmith, who
• silversmith who

• made silver shrines of

• Artemis,
• Artemis, and
• Artemis and

• brought no
• provided a
• was bringing no

• little
• great deal of

• business to the
• business for the
• profit to the
• profit for the

• craftsmen;
• craftsmen,
• craftsmen.
• artisans,
• artisans.

Acts 19:25

• Demetrius had a meeting with these men and some others who did the same kind of work. He told them, “Men, you

• know that
• know

• we make a lot of money from our

• business.
• business,
• work.

Acts 19:26

• and you
• And you
• You
• Now you

• see and hear that not

• only in
• only at

• Ephesus, but in
• Ephesus but in
• Ephesus, but throughout
• Ephesus but throughout
• Ephesus but

• almost all of
• almost throughout all

• Asia, this
• Asia this

• Paul
• man Paul

• has persuaded and

• turned away a
• misled a

• considerable number of

• people,
• people by

• saying that gods

• made by
• made with

• hands
• hand

• are

• not
• not really

• Gods at all.
• gods at all.
• gods.
• gods!
• real.

Acts 19:27

• [Translation pending]

Acts 19:28

• When they
• When the men

• heard this
• heard this,
• heard this, the

• they
• men

• were
• became

• very angry.
• furious and
• filled with anger, and
• filled with anger and
• very angry and
• filled with rage and
• enraged, and
• enraged and

• shouted, ‘
• shouted, “
• began to shout, “
• began shouting—“
• began shouting: “
• They shouted, “
• cried out, “
• started shouting, “
• cried out, saying, “

• Great is

• Artemis of the
• Diana of the
• Diana of

• Ephesians!’
• Ephesians!
• Ephesians!”
• Ephesus.”
• Ephesus!’
• Ephesus!”

Acts 19:29

• The city
• The whole city
• So the city
• Soon the whole city

• was

• filled with
• filled with the

• confusion, and
• confusion; and

• they
• people

• rushed together into the

• theater,
• amphitheater,

• dragging with
• dragging along with

• them Gaius and

• Aristarchus,
• Aristarchus, the

• Macedonians who were Paul’s

• companions
• companions in

• travel.

Acts 19:30

• Paul
• But when Paul
• And when Paul

• wanted to
• wished to

• go into the
• go in among the
• go in and talk to the
• appear before the
• go before the

• crowd, but the
• crowd. But the
• people, the
• people, but the
• people, but
• people but
• assembly but the
• assembly, but the

• disciples
• believers
• Lord’s followers
• his followers

• would
• did

• not
• n’t

• let
• allow

• him,
• him.
• him;

Acts 19:31

• and even some of the
• And even some of the
• Even some of the

• Asiarchs, who
• Asiarchs who
• Asiarchs,

• were

• friends of
• friendly to

• him,
• his
• his,
• Paul
• Paul,
• Paul. They

• sent
• sent to

• him a
• him and
• word to him,
• word to him

• begged
• message, begging
• message begging
• urged
• message urging

• him not to take the risk of going into the theater.

Acts 19:32

• [Translation pending]

Acts 19:33

• Some of the crowd
• Some of the crowd concluded
• But some of the crowd
• And some of the crowd

• prompted Alexander, whom the Jews had pushed

• forward; and
• forward. And
• forward;
• forward.

• Alexander
• Alexander,

• motioned with
• motioning with

• his

• hand,
• hand and
• hand, and

• wanted to make a

• defense to the
• defense before the

• people.
• assembly,
• assembly.
• crowd.

Acts 19:34

• But when they
• but when they
• As soon as they

• recognized that
• saw that
• realized

• he
• Alexander

• was a

• Jew,
• Jew, a

• they all

• shouted in
• shouted

• unison for about two
• unison, for about two

• hours: “
• hours, “
• hours, ‘
• hours. “

• Great is

• Artemis of the
• Diana of the
• Artemis of
• Diana of

• Ephesians!
• Ephesians!’
• Ephesians!”
• Ephesus!’
• Ephesus!”

Acts 19:35

• And when the city
• When the town

• clerk had quieted the

• crowd.
• crowd,

• he

• said, ‘
• said: “
• said, “

• Men of
• Citizens of

• Ephesus, who is there who does

• not
• n’t

• know that the

• city of the
• city of

• Ephesians

• is the
• is

• temple

• keeper of the
• guardian of the

• great

• Artemis and of
• Artemis, and of the
• Artemis and of the

• her image that
• image which
• statue that
• her image, which
• sacred stone that

• fell from
• fell
• fell from the
• fell down from

• heaven!
• heaven.
• heaven?
• sky.
• sky?
• down from Zeus?

Acts 19:36

• Therefore, since these

• things
• facts

• are
• cannot be

• undeniable,
• denied,
• indisputable,

• you

• must
• ought to

• be
• calm
• keep

• quiet and
• quiet, and to
• down and

• do
• not do

• anything
• nothing

• rash;
• rash!
• rash.
• foolish.
• reckless.
• rashly.

Acts 19:37

• for you
• For you
• You

• have brought these men, who are neither temple robbers nor blasphemers of

• our
• your

• goddess;
• goddess.
• Goddess.

Acts 19:38

• If then
• If therefore

• Demetrius and the

• craftsmen who are with
• craftsmen with

• him have a

• complaint against
• case against
• charge against

• anyone, the

• courts
• court days

• are
• are in

• open and there
• open, and there
• session, and there

• are

• proconsuls;
• proconsuls—
• proconsuls.

• Let
• let

• them

• bring
• press

• charges against one another!
• charges against one another.
• charges against one another there.
• charges.

Acts 19:39

• [Translation pending]

Acts 19:40

• For indeed we
• for we
• For we

• are in danger of being

• charged with
• accused of

• rioting
• riot

• today, since there is no reason we can give to

• account of this
• justify this
• explain this

• disorderly gathering.”
• concourse.
• concourse;’
• commotion.”

Acts 19:41

• After saying this, he
• After saying this he
• With these words he
• With these words, he

• dismissed the

• Assembly.
• assembly.
• meeting.