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Name: Jacquelyn Fazzolari
B
IBLE S
TUDY P
ROJECT
:
O
BSERVATION T
EMPLATE
Passage: Acts 19:11-22
A. I have read Acts 19:11-22 in both a formal translation (NASB, NRSV, ESV, or CSB) and a functional translation (NIV, NLT, or NCV). Highlight the correct answer. Please use the translation provided in your digital library or found at Biblegateway.com
o
Yes
o
No
B.
Having read the passage in both formal and functional translation, list at least 2 similarities and 3 differences between the way both translations cover this story. These similarities and differences should be related to the text itself rather than the translation. For example, an observation like, “The formal translation is harder to read” is not an acceptable observation because it deals with the translation itself rather than the text. You may list as many similarities and differences that you find providing that you meet the minimum amount for each one.
1.
Similarity – Both translations identify 7 sons of a high standing priest were trying to cast out evil spirits themselves. 2.
Similarity- Both translations describe that when word spread of the evil spirit attacking the Jewish exorcists, there was a fear in all of them due to the story they heard and they all became believers. 3.
Difference – In the ESV translation, Acts 19:11 opens with “God was doing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul”. In the NLT, Acts 19:11 states “God gave Paul the power to perform unusual miracles.” 4.
Difference - In Acts 19:15, the ESV translation states that the Jewish exorcists were trying to revoke evil spirits out of people by using Jesus and Paul’s name. When they did this, the evil spirit answered with “Jesus I know, Paul I recognize, but who are you?” The NLT version is written as “I know Jesus, and I know Paul, but who are you?”
5.
Difference – In the NLT version, Acts 19:19 states “A number of them who had been practicing sorcery brought their incantation books and burned them at a public bonfire. The value of the books was several million dollars.” In the ESV version, Acts 19:19 reads “And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver.”
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C. Identify the basic elements of the story you are studying.
1.
Main characters: (List them)
a. Paul
b. The seven sons of Sceva
c. Jesus/God
2. Plot: (50-100 words)
Paul goes to Ephesus and starts performing miracles. He had great success healing and ridding evil spirits from people. The word that Paul was able to heal people through Jesus Christ’s name spread. The seven sons of Sceva tried to copy Paul’s method of revoking evil spirits in the name of Jesus and Paul, and was attacked by a man who had an evil spirit within. The story of this attack spread rapidly and a great number of people who had previously been practicing sorcery transitioned into believers. 3. Story structure: (50-100 words)
Note: Plot and Story Structure are not the same thing (see the tutorial and student example)
Introduction:
Paul traveled to Ephesus and began healing people with the power given by god and ridding them of evil spirits with great success.
Inciting Incident: Word spread rapidly that Paul was able to heal people through the power of Jesus.
Rising Action: The seven sons of Sceva tried to copy Paul’s practice by casting out evil spirits in the name of Jesus Christ, who Paul preaches. Climax: The seven sons were called out by the evil spirit was attacked by the man in which the evil spirit resided.
Falling Action: Word spread rapidly in Ephasus of the seven sons attack.
Resolution: Many people became believers and confessed to their sinful practices. They burned their incantation books and Jesus was honored. Paul then planned to go to Macedonia and Achaia before heading to Jerusalem.
D. List basic observations about this passage using the “Key Question” for observation. Remember to consult and review chapters 17 and 37 in Everyday Bible Study
. This will help you be more detailed in your answers to “who,” “what,” “where,” “when,” “why,” and “how.” Please be detailed and specific.
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1. Who:
Luke (author)
Both Luke and Acts were penned for a recipient named “Theophilus” and other Gentiles (the audience). (Cartwright and Hulsholf, p. 222)
Paul
The seven sons of Sceva
The man inhibited by an evil spirit
Timothy and Erastus, Paul’s helpers.
2. What:
Paul goes to Ephesus and God uses his hands to performing miracles with great success. The word that Paul was able to heal people through Jesus Christ’s name spread. The seven sons of Sceva tried to copy Paul’s method of revoking evil spirits in the name of Jesus and Paul, and was attacked by a man who had an evil spirit within. The story of this attack spread rapidly and a great number of people who had previously been practicing sorcery transitioned into believers. 2.
Where: Ephesus, Hall of Tyrannus.
4. When: During Paul’s third missionary journey, believed to be between 54-57 AD. Post-resurrection period. 6.
Why: Why did Paul go to Ephesus? Paul was on his third missionary journey. He began teaching in a synagogue but some non-believers grew angry. He then moved to the Hall of Tyrannus to preach and perform miracles. Why were the 7 sons of Sceva attacked? The Jewish exorcists were trying to use (what they thought was) Paul’s way of success by expelling evil spirits in Jesus and Paul’s name, but they quickly found out that this approach would not work for them when the man whom the evil spirit inhabited attacked. The Jewish exorcists used Jesus and Paul’s name, thinking they would have success like Paul did, but the evil spirit knew that the exorcists were not a real threat to it. That is why he acknowledges he knows who Jesus and Paul are, but questioned who they were. The evil spirit was surely aware of who his biggest threats were, and the Jewish exorcists were not one of them because they were not operating under God or Jesus (the real threats). They had no real power against the
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evil spirit because the relationship between them, Paul, and Jesus was nonexistent. It was a fraudulent attempt to mirror Paul’s success.
Why did non-believers convert and burn their incantation books? Fear spread through Ephesus from the story of the 7 sons of Sceva. The story made them fear the lord and demons and they renounced their sinful ways and became believers. 6. How:
How did Paul heal people? Acts 19:11 states that God gave Paul the power to perform unusual miracles. In was unusual because the aprons and handkerchiefs of Paul were being places on the skin of diseased people and they were curing them and expelling the evil spirits within them. Both ESV and NLT translations describe that Paul was given the power to perform miracles, both assumed to be through the power of God, but the NLT translation makes the distinction that these miracles were “unusual”. The act of taking Paul’s aprons and handkerchief, placing them on the sick, and being able to be healed was not the typical fashion in which God administered miracles through his believers. How did the attack on the seven sons inspire people to become believers? Ephesus was plagued with magic performers, non believers and sorcery. After the story of the seven sons spread, it struck fear into the people to come accept and obey God. Many people burned their incantation books and converted because of the story of the sons being attacked because they were not representatives of the true God. John Cartwright and Chris Hulshof, Everyday Bible Study: Growing in the Christian Faith
, ed. Gabriel Etzel and Ben Gutierrez, 2nd edition., Everyday Bible Series (Nashville, TN: B&H Academic, 2019).