These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Acts 19
Brit Hadashah 41 verses
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During the stay of Apollos in Corinth, , after passing through the inland districts, came to Ephesus, where he found a few disciples.
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- 2 “Did you receive the Holy when you first believed?” he asked them. “No,” they replied, “we did not even that there is a Holy .”
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“Into what then were you baptized?” he asked. “Into John’s ,” they replied.
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- 4 “,” he said, “administered a of repentance, bidding the people believe on One who was to come after him; namely, on .”
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On hearing this, they were baptized into the of the Lord ;
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- 6 and when laid his hands upon them, the Holy came on them, and they began to speak in tongues and to prophesy.
- 7 They numbered in all about twelve men.
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Afterwards he went into the . There for three months he continued to preach fearlessly, explaining in words which carried conviction the truths which concern the Kingdom of .
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But some grew obstinate in unbelief and spoke evil of the new before all the congregation. So left them, and, taking with him those who were disciples, held discussions daily in Tyrannus’s lecture-hall.
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Acts 19:23 Acts 9:2 Acts 14:4 Acts 13:45-46 Matthew 16:4 Psalm 95:8 Acts 17:4 Acts 19:30 Jude 1:10 Matthew 26:55 Nehemiah 9:29 Matthew 15:14 Romans 9:18 Jeremiah 19:15 1 Timothy 6:5 Isaiah 8:14 Proverbs 8:34 2 Chronicles 36:16 Luke 12:51-53 2 Chronicles 30:8 Acts 11:26 Acts 24:21 2 Timothy 1:15 Jeremiah 7:26 Nehemiah 9:16-17 Acts 7:51 Acts 20:31 Acts 22:4 2 Peter 2:12 2 Peter 2:2 2 Timothy 3:5 John 12:40 2 Kings 17:14 Acts 18:6-8 Romans 11:7 Hebrews 3:13 2 Timothy 4:2 Acts 28:22 - 10 This went on for two years, so that all the inhabitants of the province of Asia, Jews as well as Greeks, heard the Lord’s Message.
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also brought about extraordinary miracles through Paul’s instrumentality.
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Towels or aprons, for instance, which had handled used to be carried to the sick, and they recovered from their ailments, or the evil spirits left them.
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- 13 But there were also some wandering Jewish exorcists who undertook to invoke the of over those who had the evil spirits, saying, “I command you by that whom preaches.”
- 14 There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew of high-priestly family, who were doing this.
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“ I ,” the evil answered, “and I have heard of, but who are you?”
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And the man in whom the evil was sprang on two of them, over-mastered them both, and treated them with such violence, that they fled from the house stripped of their clothes and wounded.
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- 17 All the people of Ephesus, Jews as well as Greeks, came to of this. There was widespread terror, and they began to hold the of the Lord in high .
- 18 Many also of those who believed came confessing without reserve what their conduct had been,
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and not a few of those who had practised magical arts brought their books together and burnt them in the presence of all. The total value was reckoned and found to be 50,000 silver coins.
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Thus mightily did the Lord’s Message spread and triumph!
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When matters had reached this point, decided in his own mind to travel through Macedonia and Greece, and go to . “After that,” he said, “I must also see Rome.”
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Acts 20:22 Acts 20:16 Acts 18:21 Acts 23:11 Romans 1:13 Acts 20:1-6 Acts 28:16 Acts 21:11-15 1 Corinthians 16:5 1 Thessalonians 1:7 Romans 15:23-29 Acts 18:12 Lamentations 3:37 2 Corinthians 1:15-18 Acts 27:1 Acts 21:4 Romans 1:15 Acts 27:24 Acts 25:10-12 Acts 16:6-10 Galatians 2:1 Acts 24:17-18 Philippians 1:12-14 Acts 21:17 Acts 28:30-31 - 22 But he sent two of his assistants, Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia, while he himself remained for a while in Roman Asia.
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Now just at that time there arose no small commotion about the new .
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There was a certain Demetrius, a silversmith, who made miniature silver sanctuaries of Diana, a business which brought great gain to the mechanics in his employ.
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He called his workmen together, and others who were engaged in similar trades, and said to them, “You men well that our prosperity depends on this business of ours;
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and you see and that, not in Ephesus only but throughout almost the whole province of Asia, this fellow has led away a vast number of people by inducing them to believe that they are not Elohims at all that are made by men’s hands.
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Isaiah 44:10-20 Acts 17:29 1 Corinthians 8:4 Jeremiah 10:11 Acts 14:15 Jeremiah 10:14-15 Revelation 9:20 Deuteronomy 4:28 Acts 19:10 1 Corinthians 16:8-9 Psalm 135:15-18 Acts 18:19 Jeremiah 10:3-6 Psalm 115:4-8 1 Corinthians 10:19-20 1 Thessalonians 1:9 Isaiah 46:5-8 1 Corinthians 12:2 Acts 19:18-20 Galatians 4:8 Hosea 8:6 -
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There is danger, therefore, not only that this our trade will become of no account, but also that the of the great Elohimdess Diana will fall into utter disrepute, and that before long she will be actually deposed from her majestic rank—she who is now worshipped by the whole province of Asia; nay, by the whole world.”
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- 28 After listening to this harangue, they became furiously angry and kept calling out, “Great is the Ephesian Diana!”
- 29 The riot and uproar spread through the whole city, till at last with one accord they rushed into the Theatre, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, two Macedonians who were fellow travellers with .
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Then would have liked to go in and address the people, but the disciples would not let him do so.
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A few of the public officials, too, who were friendly to him, sent repeated messages entreating him not to venture into the Theatre.
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The people, meanwhile, kept shouting, some one thing and some another; for the was all uproar and confusion, and the greater part had no idea why they had come together.
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Then some of the people crowded round Alexander, whom the Jews had pushed forward; and Alexander, motioning with his hand to get silence, was prepared to make a defence to the people.
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No sooner, however, did they see that he was a Jew, than there arose from them all one roar of shouting, lasting about two hours. “Great is the Ephesian Diana,” they said.
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At length the Recorder quieted them down. “Men of Ephesus,” he said, “who is there of all mankind that needs to be told that the city of Ephesus is the guardian of the of the great Diana and of the image which fell down from Zeus?
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These facts, then, being unquestioned, it becomes you to maintain your self-control and not act recklessly.
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For you have brought these men here, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of our Elohimdess.
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If, however, Demetrius and the mechanics who support his contention have a grievance against any one, there are Assize-days and there are Proconsuls: let the persons interested accuse one another.
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- 39 But if you desire anything further, it will have to be settled in the regular .
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For in connexion with to-day’s proceedings there is danger of our being charged with attempted insurrection, there having been no real reason for this riot; nor shall we be able to justify the behaviour of this disorderly mob.”
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With these words he dismissed the .
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