ACTS—NOTE ON Acts 16:18 The words of the fortune-telling girl (v. Acts 16:17) were true in a formal sense. Paul was greatly annoyed, probably because he did not want it to appear that she was his partner in the gospel. I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. Such a verbal command is consistent with the authority over demons that Jesus himself had (see Matthew 8:16; Matthew 12:28) and that he gave to his disciples (Matthew 10:8; Luke 10:17).

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