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Acts 19:12

Sickness and healing

10 This continued for two years, so that everyone who lived in the province of Asia, Jews and Greeks alike, heard the word of the Lord.

11 God did extraordinary miracles through the hands of Paul,

so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and the diseases and evil spirits left them.

13 Now there were some itinerant Jewish exorcists who tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those with evil spirits. They would say, “I bind you by Jesus, whom Paul proclaims.”

14 Seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this.

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BSB
so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and the diseases and evil spirits left them.
KJV
So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.
WEB
so 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.
ASV
insomuch that unto the sick were carried away from his body handkerchiefs or aprons, and the evil spirits went out.
DARBY
so that even napkins or aprons were brought from his body [and put] upon the sick, and the diseases left them, and the wicked spirits went out.
BLB
so that even soudaria or simikinthia from his skin were brought to the ailing, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits left.
ÅB
så at de endog tok svededuker eller forklær som han hadde hatt på seg, og bar til de syke, og sykdommene vek fra dem, og de onde ånder fór ut av dem.
OTB
slik at til og med tørklær og forklær som hadde rørt ved hans hud, ble brakt til de syke, og deres sykdommer forlot dem, og de onde åndene dro ut.
B1930
så at de endog tok svededuker eller forklær som han hadde hatt på sig, og bar til de syke, og sykdommene vek fra dem, og de onde ånder fór ut av dem.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Acts 5:15

    As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by.

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  • 2 Kings 13:20–21

    And Elisha died and was buried. Now the Moabite raiders used to come into the land every spring.

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  • Mark 16:17

    And these signs will accompany those who believe: In My name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues;

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  • 2 Kings 4:29–31

    So Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tie up your garment, take my staff in your hand, and go! If you meet anyone, do not greet him, and if anyone greets you, do not answer him. Then lay my staff on the boy’s face.”

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