Hello and welcome to Bible Stories, we are your hosts, your friend Todd, hey there.

And I'm Matt, two ministers and two buddies who love the stories of the Bible.

We want to tell you about them and today, buddy, this one's a little rough and tumble,

if I'm going to be honest with you, we are getting in the mud with an exorcism gone wrong.

Is that right?

That's actually correct, yeah.

Feels like, are we making this up?

This is actually the Bible.

It actually is.

And not only is it in the Bible, it's in the New Testament, Matt.

And so, yeah, this little story is found in the book of Acts, the chapter 19.

And yeah, man, this is an interesting one, you used the term rough and tumble, a little

rumble happens, if you will.

And so yeah, I just want to share a little bit about this.

Now, Matt, before we get in and we just talk just explicitly about this story, I want

to give just a little bit of background, there's a lot going on here.

This takes place in Ephesus.

And so Ephesus is like a cultural hotspot, at this time, I don't want to directly relate

it to a place like an LA, but it's kind of just very culturally savvy and not exactly

the Bible by any means, but a lot of people coming from all walks of life and a lot of

belief systems and just a lot of stuff with that, kind of a melting pot type of thing

happening.

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