Acts 19:13

Now some also of the Jewish exorcists who went about, attempted to invoke over them that had evil spirits, the name of the Lord Jesus, saying: I conjure you by Jesus, whom Paul preacheth.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.

In Context

12So that even there were brought from his body to the sick, handkerchiefs and aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the wicked spirits went out of them.

14And there were certain men, seven sons of Sceva, a Jew, a chief priest, that did this.

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Cross References

Genesis 4:14Behold thou dost cast me out this day from the face of the earth, and I shall be hidden from thy face, and I shall be a vagabond and a fugitive on the earth: everyone, therefore, that findeth me, shall kill me.

1 Samuel 14:24And the men of Israel were joined together that day; and Saul adjured the people, saying: Cursed be the man that shall eat food till evening, till I be revenged of my enemies. So none of the people tasted any food:

Psalms 109:10Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings.

Matthew 26:63But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest said to him: I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us if thou be the Christ the Son of God.

Mark 9:38But Jesus said: Do not forbid him. For there is no man that doth a miracle in my name, and can soon speak ill of me.

Luke 11:19Now if I cast out devils by Beelzebub; by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges.

Matthew Henry on Acts 19:9-13

Paul at Ephesus. 8 And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God. 9 But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus. 10 And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks. 11 And God… Read the whole commentary →

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