Acts 19:13
Good News Translation
Some Jews who traveled around and drove out evil spirits also tried to use the name of the Lord Jesus to do this. They said to the evil spirits, "I command you in the name of Jesus, whom Paul preaches."

New Revised Standard Version
Then some itinerant Jewish exorcists tried to use the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul proclaims.”

Contemporary English Version
Some Jewish men started going around trying to force out evil spirits by using the name of the Lord Jesus. They said to the spirits, "Come out in the name of that same Jesus that Paul preaches about!"

New American Bible
Then some itinerant Jewish exorcists tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those with evil spirits, saying, “I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now some also of the Jewish exorcists, who went about, attempted to invoke over them that had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying: I conjure you by Jesus, whom Paul preacheth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Now some also of the Jewish exorcists, who went about, attempted to invoke over them that had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying: I conjure you by Jesus, whom Paul preacheth.

vagabond.

Genesis 4:12,14 When thou shalt till it, it shall not yield to thee its fruit: a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be upon the earth. . . .

Psalm 109:10 Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings.

exorcists.

Matthew 12:27 And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges.

Luke 11:19 Now if I cast out devils by Beelzebub, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore, they shall be your judges.

took.

Acts 8:18,19 And when Simon saw that, by the imposition of the hands of the apostles, the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money, . . .

Mark 9:38 John answered him, saying: Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, who followeth not us: and we forbade him.

Luke 9:49 And John, answering, said: Master, we saw a certain man casting out devils in thy name: and we forbade him, because he followeth not with us.

adjure.

Joshua 6:26 Cursed be the man before the Lord, that shall raise up and build the city of Jericho. In his firstborn may he lay the foundation thereof, and in the last of his children set up its gates.

1 Samuel 14:24 And the men of Israel were joined together that day: and Saul adjured the people, saying: Cursed be the man that shall eat food till evening, till I be revenged of my enemies. So none of the people tasted any food.

1 Kings 22:16 But the king said to him: I adjure thee again and again, that thou tell me nothing but that which is true, in the name of the Lord.

Matthew 26:63 But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest said to him: I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us if thou be the Christ the Son of God.

Mark 5:7 And crying with a loud voice, he said: What have I to do with thee, Jesus the Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God that thou torment me not.

Context
The Sons of Sceva
12So that even there were brought from his body to the sick, handkerchiefs and aprons: and the diseases departed from them: and the wicked spirits went out of them. 13Now some also of the Jewish exorcists, who went about, attempted to invoke over them that had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying: I conjure you by Jesus, whom Paul preacheth. 14And there were certain men, seven sons of Sceva, a Jew, a chief priest, that did this.…
Cross References
Matthew 12:27
And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges.

Luke 11:19
Now if I cast out devils by Beelzebub, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore, they shall be your judges.

Acts 19:14
And there were certain men, seven sons of Sceva, a Jew, a chief priest, that did this.

2 Corinthians 11:4
For if he that cometh preacheth another Christ, whom we have not preached; or if you receive another Spirit, whom you have not received; or another gospel, which you have not received: you might well bear with him.

Acts 19:12
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