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Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmidt, and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast, where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by Ascension. Using the great adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today. It is day 340. You know what that means that, so there's 25 days left. What the heck. Are you kidding me? That's bananas. We're reading Acts of the Apostles chapter 19, Paul in Ephesus. We're also reading the second letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians. Chapter 1 and 2, just the beginning of that letter, as well as proverb chapter 28 versus 22 through 24. As always the Bible translation I'm reading from is the revised standard version, second Catholic edition. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. To download your own Bible in your reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in the year. You can also subscribe to this podcast by clicking on subscribe, receiving daily episodes and daily updates. You know what I'm going to say. It is day 340. We're reading Acts chapter 19, 2 Corinthians, chapters 1 and 2, the introduction, as well as Proverbs chapter 28, verses 22 through 24.

The Acts of the Apostles, Chapter 19. Paul in Ephesus. While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through

the upper country and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples, and he said to them,

Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?

And they said, no, we have never even heard that there is a Holy Spirit. And he said,

Into what then were you baptized? They said, into John's baptism. And Paul said, John baptized with the

baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is Jesus. On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus, and when Paul had laid

his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke with tongues and prophesied.

There were about 12 of them in all. And he entered the synagogue, and for three months spoke

boldly, arguing and pleading about the

kingdom of God. But when some were stubborn and disbelieved, speaking evil of the way before the

congregation, he withdrew from them, taking the disciples with him, and argued daily in the Hall of

Tyrannus. This continued for two years, so that all the residents of Asia heard the word of the

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