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Acts 19:14

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There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did this.

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Acts 19:14 in other translations

And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, a chief priest, who did this.

Acts 19:14 · American Standard Version

Acts 19:14 in context

  1. 12so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out.
  2. 13But some of the itinerant Jews, exorcists, took on themselves to invoke over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, “We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.”
  3. 14There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did this.
  4. 15The evil spirit answered, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?”
  5. 16The man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.