◄ Acts 19:16 ►
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Good News Translation
The man who had the evil spirit in him attacked them with such violence that he overpowered them all. They ran away from his house, wounded and with their clothes torn off.

New Revised Standard Version
Then the man with the evil spirit leaped on them, mastered them all, and so overpowered them that they fled out of the house naked and wounded.

Contemporary English Version
Then the man with the evil spirit jumped on them and beat them up. They ran out of the house, naked and bruised.

New American Bible
The person with the evil spirit then sprang at them and subdued them all. He so overpowered them that they fled naked and wounded from that house.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the man in whom the wicked spirit was, leaping upon them and mastering them both, prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the man in whom the wicked spirit was, leaping upon them and mastering them both, prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

Mark 5:3,4,15 Who had his dwelling in the tombs, and no man now could bind him, not even with chains. . . .

Luke 8:29,35 For he commanded the unclean spirit to go out of the man. For many times it seized him: and he was bound with chains and kept in fetters: and breaking the bonds, he was driven by the devil into the deserts. . . .

Context
The Sons of Sceva
…15But the wicked spirit, answering, said to them: Jesus I know: and Paul I know. But who are you? 16And the man in whom the wicked spirit was, leaping upon them and mastering them both, prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. 17And this became known to all the Jews and the Gentiles that dwelt a Ephesus. And fear fell on them all: and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.…
Cross References
Acts 3:8
And he leaping up, stood and walked and went in with them into the temple, walking and leaping and praising God.

Acts 19:15
But the wicked spirit, answering, said to them: Jesus I know: and Paul I know. But who are you?

Acts 19:17
And this became known to all the Jews and the Gentiles that dwelt a Ephesus. And fear fell on them all: and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.

2 Peter 2:19
Promising them liberty, whereas they themselves are the slaves of corruption. For by whom a man is overcome, of the same also he is the slave.

Acts 19:15
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