13 Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists undertook to invoke the ^fname of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul ^gproclaims.” 14 Seven sons of a Jewish high priest named Sceva were doing this. 15 But the evil spirit answered them, ^h“Jesus I know, ⁱand Paul I recognize, but who are you?” 16 And the man in whom was the evil spirit leaped on them, mastered all¹ of them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. 17 And this became known to all the residents of Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks. And fear fell upon them all, and the ^jname of the Lord Jesus was extolled. 18 Also many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices. 19 And a number of those who had practiced ^kmagic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver. 20 So the ^lword of the Lord continued to increase and prevail mightily.