And while Apollos was in Corinth, Paulos traveled through the upper regions and came to Ephesus, and he was asking the disciples whom he found there,

“Have you received the Ruach haKodesh since you believed?” They answered and said to him, “We have not even heard whether there is a Ruach haKodesh.”

He said to them, “Into what then were you immersed?” They said, “Into the immersion of Yochanan.”

Paulos said to them, “Yochanan immersed with the immersion of repentance for the people, while he was saying that they should believe in the one who is coming after him, who is Y'shua the Mashiyach.”

And when they heard these things, they were immersed in the name of our Master Y'shua the Mashiyach.

And Paulos laid his hand on them, and the Ruach haKodesh came upon them, and they were speaking in various tongues and prophesying.

Now they were all twelve persons.

And Paulos entered the synagogue and was speaking openly for three months, and was persuading concerning the kingdom of Elohim.

And some of them were hardening and contending and reviling the way of Elohim before the assembly of the peoples. Then Paulos withdrew and separated the disciples from them. And every day he was speaking with them in the school of a man whose name was Tyrannus.

And this continued two years, until all who dwell in Proconsular Asia, Yehudaye and Aramaye, heard the word of Master YHWH.

And Elohim was doing very great powers by the hand of Paulos,

so that even from the clothes on his body they were bringing handkerchiefs or rags and laying them on the sick, and the diseases were leaving them, and the demons also were going out.

Also some Jewish men who went around and adjured over demons wanted to adjure in the name of our Master Y'shua over those who had unclean spirits, saying, We adjure you in the name of Y'shua whom Paulos proclaims.

And there were seven sons of one Jewish man, a chief priest, whose name was Seqwa, who were doing this.

And that evil demon answered and said to them, Y'shua I know, and Paulos I know, but you, who are you?

And the man in whom was the evil spirit leaped on them and overpowered them and threw them down, and naked and wounded they fled from that house.

And this became known to all the Jews and Arameans who lived in Ephesos, and fear fell on them all, and the name of our Master Y'shua the Mashiyach was exalted.

And many of those who believed came and narrated their faults and confessed what they had done.

And many sorcerers also gathered their books and brought and burned them before everyone, and they calculated their value, and the silver came to fifty thousand pieces.

And so with great power the faith of Elohim was strengthened and increased.

And when these things were completed, Paulos set in his mind to go around all Macedonia and Achaia and go to Urishlim. And he said, After I have gone there, I must also see Rome.

And he sent two men from those who were ministering to him to Macedonia, Timatheos and Erastos, but he himself stayed a time in Asia.

And there was at that time a great disturbance about the way of Elohim.

And there was there a certain silversmith whose name was Demetrios, who made silver shrines for Artemis, and he was bringing great profit to the sons of his craft.

This one gathered them, all the sons of his craft, and those who labor with them, and said to them: Men, you know that our whole trade is from this work.

And you also hear and see that not only the sons of Ephesus, but also the majority of all Asia, this Paulos has persuaded and turned aside, saying that those are not Elohim which are made by the hands of the sons of men.

And not only is this matter alone slandered and brought to nothing, but also that temple of Artemis the great goddess is accounted as nothing, and she herself, the goddess whom all Asia and all the peoples worship, is despised.

And when they heard these things they were filled with wrath, and they were crying out and saying: Great is Artemis of the Ephesians.

And the whole city was stirred up, and they ran together and went into the theatre, and they seized and led with them Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonian men, companions of Paulos.

And Paulos was wanting to enter the theatre, but the disciples restrained him.

And also the chiefs of Asia, because they were his friends, sent and requested of him that he not give his soul to enter the theatre.

But the crowd that were in the theatre were very confused, and some were crying out one thing and others another; for many of them did not know for what they had gathered.

But the people of the Yehudaye who were there set up from among them a Yehudaya man whose name was Alexander, and when he stood he waved his hand and wished to make a defence to the people.

And when they knew that he was a Yehudaya, they all cried out with one voice for about two hours: Great is Artamis of Aphsiya.

And the chief of the city quieted them, saying: Men of Aphsiya, for who is there among men who does not know the city of Aphsiya, that it is the temple-keeper of the great Artamis, and of her image that came down from heaven?

Therefore since no one can speak against this, it is right for you to be quiet and not do anything in haste.

For you have brought these men, when they have not robbed temples and have not reviled our goddess.

But if this Demetrius and the men of his craft have a case with anyone, look, the proconsuls are in the city; they are craftsmen—let them approach and litigate one with another.

And if it is that you seek something else, it is settled in the place given by the law for the assembly.

Because even now we stand in danger of being accused as a riot, since we cannot give an account for the gathering of this day, for we have assembled needlessly and been stirred up without a cause.

And when he had said these things, he dismissed the crowd.