Matthew 7:22-23

7:22 On that day, many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, and in your name cast out demons and do ¹  many powerful deeds?’ 7:23 Then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you. Go away from me, you lawbreakers!’ ² 

Acts 19:13-16

19:13 But some itinerant ³  Jewish exorcists tried to invoke the name ⁴  of the Lord Jesus over those who were possessed by ⁵  evil spirits, saying, “I sternly warn ⁶  you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.” 19:14 (Now seven sons of a man named ⁷  Sceva, a Jewish high priest, were doing this.) ⁸  19:15 But the evil spirit replied to them, ⁹  “I know about Jesus ¹⁰  and I am acquainted with ¹¹  Paul, but who are you?” ¹²  19:16 Then the man who was possessed by ¹³  the evil spirit jumped on ¹⁴  them and beat them all into submission. ¹⁵  He prevailed ¹⁶  against them so that they fled from that house naked and wounded.

Acts 19:1

Disciples of John the Baptist at Ephesus

19:1 While ¹⁷  Apollos was in Corinth, ¹⁸  Paul went through the inland ¹⁹  regions ²⁰  and came to Ephesus. ²¹  He ²²  found some disciples there ²³ 

Colossians 1:27

1:27 God wanted to make known to them the glorious ²⁴  riches of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

Colossians 1:1-2

Salutation

1:1 From Paul, ²⁵  an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, 1:2 to the saints, the faithful ²⁶  brothers and sisters ²⁷  in Christ, at Colossae. Grace and peace to you ²⁸  from God our Father! ²⁹ 

¹ tn Grk “and in your name do.” This phrase was not repeated here in the translation for stylistic reasons.

² tn Grk “workers of lawlessness.”

³ tn Grk “some Jewish exorcists who traveled about.” The adjectival participle περιερχομένων (periercomenwn) has been translated as “itinerant.”

⁴ tn Grk “to name the name.”

⁵ tn Grk “who had.” Here ἔχω (ecw) is used of demon possession, a common usage according to BDAG 421 s.v. ἔχω 7.a.α.

⁶ sn The expression I sternly warn you means “I charge you as under oath.”

⁷ tn Grk “a certain Sceva.”

⁸ sn Within the sequence of the narrative, this amounts to a parenthetical note by the author.

⁹ tn Grk “answered and said to them.” The expression, redundant in English, has been simplified to “replied.”

¹⁰ tn Grk “Jesus I know about.” Here ᾿Ιησοῦν (Ihsoun) is in emphatic position in Greek, but placing the object first is not normal in contemporary English style.

¹¹ tn BDAG 380 s.v. ἐπίσταμαι 2 has “know, be acquainted with τινά…τὸν Παῦλον Ac 19:15.” Here the translation “be acquainted with” was used to differentiate from the previous phrase which has γινώσκω (ginwskw).

¹² sn But who are you? This account shows how the power of Paul was so distinct that parallel claims to access that power were denied. In fact, such manipulation, by those who did not know Jesus, was judged (v. 16). The indirect way in which the exorcists made the appeal shows their distance from Jesus.

¹³ tn Grk “in whom the evil spirit was.”

¹⁴ tn Grk “the man in whom the evil spirit was, jumping on them.” The participle ἐφαλόμενος (efalomeno") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style. L&N 15.239 has “ἐφαλόμενος ὁ ἄνθρωπος ἐπ᾿ αὐτούς ‘the man jumped on them’ Ac 19:16.”

¹⁵ tn Grk “and beating them all into submission.” The participle κατακυριεύσας (katakurieusa") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style. According to W. Foerster, TDNT 3:1098, the word means “the exercise of dominion against someone, i.e., to one’s own advantage.” These exorcists were shown to be powerless in comparison to Jesus who was working through Paul.

¹⁶ tn BDAG 484 s.v. ἰσχύω 3 has “win out, prevail…κατά τινος over, against someone Ac 19:16.”

¹⁷ tn Grk “It happened that while.” The introductory phrase ἐγένετο (egeneto, “it happened that”), common in Luke (69 times) and Acts (54 times), is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

¹⁸ map For location see JP1-C2; JP2-C2; JP3-C2; JP4-C2.

¹⁹ tn Or “interior.”

²⁰ tn BDAG 92 s.v. ἀνωτερικός has “upper τὰ ἀ. μέρη the upper (i.e. inland) country, the interior Ac 19:1.”

²¹ map For location see JP1-D2; JP2-D2; JP3-D2; JP4-D2.

²² tn Grk “and found.” Because of the length of the Greek sentence and the sequencing with the following verse the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated here. Instead a new English sentence is begun.

²³ tn The word “there” is not in the Greek text but is implied.

²⁴ tn The genitive noun τῆς δόξης (ths doxhs) is an attributive genitive and has therefore been translated as “glorious riches.”

²⁵ tn Grk “Paul.” The word “from” is not in the Greek text, but has been supplied to indicate the sender of the letter.

²⁶ tn Grk “and faithful.” The construction in Greek (as well as Paul’s style) suggests that the saints are identical to the faithful; hence, the καί (kai) is best left untranslated (cf. Eph 1:1). See ExSyn 281-82.

²⁷ tn Grk “brothers,” but the Greek word may be used for “brothers and sisters” or “fellow Christians” as here (cf. BDAG 18 s.v. ἀδελφός 1, where considerable nonbiblical evidence for the plural ἀδελφοί [adelfoi] meaning “brothers and sisters” is cited).

²⁸ tn Or “Grace to you and peace.”

²⁹ tc Most witnesses, including some important ones (א A C F G I [P] 075 Ï it bo), read “and the Lord Jesus Christ” at the end of this verse, no doubt to conform the wording to the typical Pauline salutation. However, excellent and early witnesses (B D K L Ψ 33 81 1175 1505 1739 1881 al sa) lack this phrase. Since the omission is inexplicable as arising from the longer reading (otherwise, these mss would surely have deleted the phrase in the rest of the corpus Paulinum), it is surely authentic.