This went on for two years. He used this lecture hall for two years. His total time in Ephesus was three years (Acts 20:31). So that all the people. Paul's preaching had strong influence in the province of Asia. We know this from: (1) the effect on those who practiced magic; (2) from what Demetrius says (Acts 19:24-27); (3) about forty years later, Pliny wrote in a letter to Trajan that Christianity had caused the temples of the gods to be deserted.

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God was performing unusual miracles. Miracles are always God's doing. To show Paul spoke by his authority, God let his power go with things carried from Paul to the sick. The people could see that the charms and amulets which they had trusted, did not have the power which handkerchiefs and aprons from Paul had.

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