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¶The .xix. Chapter.

3 Of baptisme. 6 Of the holy ghost geuen by Paules handes. 9 The Iewes blas∣pheme the doctrine of Paul. 13 The punyshment of the coniurers. 24 Demetrius rayseth sedition. 41 God delyuereth his, and appeaseth the sedition.

1 AND it came to passe, [unspec A] y^t whyle Apollo was at Corinth, Paul pas∣sed through the vpper coastes, and came to Ephesus, and founde certaine disciples,

2 And sayde vnto them: Haue ye recea∣ued the (a) 1.1 holy ghost sence ye beleued? And they saide vnto hym: We haue not hearde whether there be any holy ghost or no.

3 And he sayde vnto them: Vnto what then were ye baptized? And they sayde: vnto (b) 1.2 Iohns baptisme.

4 Then sayde Paul: Iohn veryly bap∣tized with the baptisme of repentaunce, saying vnto the people, that they should beleue on hym which shoulde come af∣ter hym, that is, on Christe Iesus.

5 When they heard this, they were bap∣tized (c) 1.3 in the name of the Lorde Iesu.

6 And whē Paul had layde his handes vpon them, the holy ghost came on thē, and they spake with tongues, and pro∣phesied.

7 And all the men were about twelue.

8 And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldlye for the space of three mo∣nethes, disputyng & perswadyng those thynges that appertayne to the kyng∣dome of God.☜

9 But when diuers waxed harde hear∣ted, [unspec B] and beleued not, but spake euyll of the way [of the Lorde) and that before the multitude, he departed from them, & se∣perated y^e disciples. And he disputed day∣ly in the scoole of one called Tyrannus.

10 And this continued by the space of two yeres, so that all they whiche dwelt in Asia, hearde the worde of the Lord Ie∣su, both Iewes and Grekes.

11 And God * 1.4 wrought speciall miracles by the handes of Paul.

12 So that from his body, were brought [unspec C] vnto the sicke, napkins, and partlettes, and the diseases departed from them, & the * 1.5 euyll spirites went out of them.

13 Then certaine of the vagabounde Iewes, exorcistes, toke vpon them to call ouer them which had euyll spirites, the name of the Lorde Iesus, saying: We adiure you by * 1.6 Iesus, whom Paul preacheth.

14 And there were seuen sonnes of one Sceua a Iewe, and chiefe of y^e priestes, which dyd so.

15 And the euyll spirite aunswered, and sayde, Iesus I knowe, and Paul I knowe: but who are ye?

16 And the man in whom the euyll spi∣rite was, ran on them, & ouercame thē, [unspec D] & preuayled agaynst them, so that they fled out of that house naked & woūded.

17 And this was knowen to all y^e Iewes & Grekes also which dwelt at Ephesus, and feare came on them all, & the name of the Lorde Iesus was magnified.

18 And many that beleued, came & * 1.7 con∣fessed, and shewed their workes.

19 Many also of thē whiche vsed curious craftes, brought their bookes, & burned them before all men, and they counted the price of them, & founde it fiftie thou∣sande peeces of syluer.

20 So myghtyly grew the word of God, and preuayled.

21 After these thinges were ended, Paul purposed in the spirite, when he had passed ouer Macedonia and Achaia, to

go to Hierusalem, saying: After I haue ben there, I must also see Rome.

22 So sent he into Macedonia two of them that ministred vnto hym, Timo∣theus and Erastus, but he hym selfe re∣mayned in Asia for a season.

[unspec E] 23 And the same time there arose no litle a do about that way.

24 For a certaine man, named Demetri∣us, a syluer smyth, which made shrines for Diana, was not a litle beneficiall vn∣to the craftes men.

25 Whom he called together, with the workemen of like occupation, and sayde: Sirs, ye knowe that by this craft * 1.8we haue aduauntage.

26 Moreouer, ye see and heare, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost through∣out all Asia, this Paul hath perswaded and turned away much people, saying that * 1.9 they be not gods which are made with handes.

27 So that not only this our craft com∣meth into peryll to be set at naught, but also that the temple of y^e great goddesse Diana should be despised, and her mag∣nificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the worlde worshippeth.

28 And when they hearde these sayinges, they were full of wrath, and cryed out, saying: great is Diana of y^e Ephesians.

29 And all the citie was on a rore, & they russhed into the common hall with one assent, and caught Gaius & Aristarcus, men of Macedonia, Paules compani∣ous.

[unspec F] 30 When Paule woulde haue entred in vnto y^e people, the disciples suffred hym not.

31 But certaine of y^e chiefe of Asia, which were his friendes, sent vnto hym, desi∣ryng hym that he would not preasse in∣to the common hall.

32 Some therfore cryed one thyng, and some another, and the assemblie was all out of quiet, and the more part knew not wherfore they were come together.

33 And they drewe Alexander out of the multitude, the Iewes thrustyng hym forwardes. And Alexander * 1.10beckened with the hande, and would haue geuen the people an aunswere.

34 But when they knewe that he was a Iewe, there arose a shoute almost for the space of two houres, of all men, cry∣ing: great is Diana of the Ephesians.

35 And when the towne clarke had paci∣fied the people, he sayde: Ye men of E∣phesus, what man is it that knoweth not how that the citie of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddesse Diana, and of the [image] whiche came downe from Iupiter?

36 Seing then that these thinges can not [unspec G] be spoken against, ye ought to be contēt, and to do nothyng rasshely.

37 For ye haue brought hyther these men, which are neither robbers of Churches nor yet despisers of your goddesse.

38 Wherfore, yf Demetrius & the craftes men which are with hym, haue a mat∣ter agaynst any man, the lawe is open, and there are deputies, let them accuse one another.

39 But yf ye inquire any thyng concer∣nyng other matters, it shalbe determi∣ned in a lawfull assemblie.

40 For we are in ieopardie to be accused of this dayes vprore, forasmuch as there is no cause, wherby we may geue a rec∣kenyng of this concourse of people.

41 And when he had thus spoken, he let the assemblie depart.

Notes

• (a) 1.1

  By the holye ghoste here he mea∣neth the visi∣ble graces of the holy spi∣rite.
• (b) 1.2

  By this place, Iohns baptisme sig∣nifieth Iohns doctrine, whi∣che therfore is so called, for that he sealed his doctrine with the seale of baptisme in them that be∣leued.
• (c) 1.3

  They that were baptized were not bap∣tized with wa¦ter, beyng be∣fore baptized of Iohn with water: but they were bap¦tized with vi∣sible gyftes of the holy ghost, which Saint Luke decla∣ryng howe it was▪ writeth that it was by the laying on of S. Paules handes.
• * 1.4

  Mark. xvi. d Actes. v. c.
• * 1.5

  Math. xvi. d
• * 1.6

  Math. vii. e.
• * 1.7

  Mark. i. a.
• * 1.8

  Act. xvi. d.
• * 1.9

  Psal. cxv. a.
• * 1.10

  Act. xxi. g.