Acts 19:19 — King James Version← Study notes
“Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.”
Acts 19:19 — Greek Interlinear
Greek · Acts 19:1922 words
ℹGreek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.
Church Fathers on Acts 19:19
And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so. And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you? And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. Acts 19:14-16 They did it in secret: then their impotence is publicly exposed. (f) Then not the Name does anything, unless it be spoken with faith.…
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Omar HassanNote4mo agoThe Books No One Can Unread
Those who practiced magic brought their books and burned them. Fifty thousand pieces of silver worth. That's not an abstract commitment. That's burning money. That's destroying your livelihood. That's...
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David MensahNote3mo agoBurning What You've Built
After Paul's ministry in Ephesus, 'a number of those who had practiced sorcery brought their scrolls together and burned them publicly. When they calculated the value of the scrolls, the total came to...
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