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You know, 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 a

exorcism gone wrong. Is that right? That's actually correct. Yeah. Feels like,

are we making this up? Is this actually in 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 hot spot, you know, at this time.

Kind of, you know, I don't want to directly relate it to a place like an L.A., but it's kind of just, you know, very culturally savvy and not exactly the Bible Belt by any means, but, you know,

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