Acts 19:14
12 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.”
Seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this.
15 Eventually, one of the evil spirits answered them, “Jesus I know, and I know about Paul, but who are you?”
16 Then the man with the evil spirit jumped on them and overpowered them all. The attack was so violent that they ran out of the house naked and wounded.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this.
- KJV
- And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so.
- WEB
- There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did this.
- ASV
- And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, a chief priest, who did this.
- DARBY
- And there were certain [men], seven sons of Sceva, Jewish high priest, who were doing this.
- BLB
- Now seven sons of a certain Sceva, a Jewish high priest, were doing this.
- ÅB
- Det var noen sønner av Skevas, en jødisk yppersteprest, syv i tallet, som gjorde dette.
- OTB
- Det var syv sønner av Skevas, en jødisk yppersteprest, som gjorde dette.
- B1930
- Det var nogen sønner av Skevas, en jødisk yppersteprest, syv i tallet, som gjorde dette.