The same followed Paul and us Luke, Silas, and Timothy; and cried, saying With great earnestness of voice and gesture; These men are the servants of the most high God, &c. A great truth: but they did not need, nor would accept of, such testimony. And this she did many succeeding days. But, at length, Paul being wearied with so tedious a circumstance, and grieved Under an apprehension that this stratagem of Satan might lead the people to imagine that the preachers of the gospel acted in a confederacy with the evil spirit, to whom the heathen worship was addressed; turned Toward the damsel; and said to the spirit By whose emotion she spake; I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ Whose gospel I preach; to come out of her. And he came out the same hour So that she had never afterward such kind of supernatural agitations, nor pretended to any gift of prophecy for the future.
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Acts 16:17-18
17 The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation.
18 And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour.