Acts 19:14 — Community Reflections

ACTS 19:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 1 0

“And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so.”

Then the man who had the evil spirit jumped on them and overpowered them all — He gave them such a beating that they ran out of the house naked and bleeding — The violent retribution against the sons of Sceva (v. 14 context implies these are his sons) demonstrates the futility of unauthorized exorcistic invocation. Nakedness and bloodying carry humiliating reversal.

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