Acts 19:14
World English Bible (WEB)
There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did this.
In context
12 so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out.
13 But some of the itinerant Jews, exorcists, took on themselves to invoke over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, “We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.”
14 There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did this.
15 The evil spirit answered, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?”
16 The man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
Acts 19:14 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did this.
- KJV King James Version
- And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this.
- ASV American Standard Version
- And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, a chief priest, who did this.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- and there were certain — seven sons of Sceva, a Jew, a chief priest — who are doing this thing;
- DBY Darby Translation
- And there were certain [men], seven sons of Sceva, Jewish high priest, who were doing this.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And there were seven sons of one Sceva a Jew, and chief of the priests, who did so.