• Acts 19:19
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures

    • 19 ἱκανοὶ Sufficient δὲ but of τῶν the (ones) τὰ the περίεργα curiosities πραξάντων having practiced συνενέγκαντες having brought together τὰς the βίβλους books κατέκαιον they were burning down ἐνώπιον in sight πάντων· of all; καὶ and συνεψήφισαν computed τὰς the τιμὰς prices αὐτῶν of them καὶ and εὗρον they found ἀργυρίου of silver μυριάδας myriads πέντε. five.

  • Acts 19:19
    The Bible in Living English

    • 19* And several of those who had practiced supernatural methods brought their books together and burned them up in sight of everybody; and they added up the prices of them and found it made fifty thousand pieces of silver.

  • Acts 19:19
    American Standard Version

    • 19 And not a few of them that practised magical arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all; and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.

  • Acts 19:19
    The Emphasized Bible

    • 19 And a good many of them who had practised the curious arts bringing together the books were burning them before all; and they reckoned up the prices of them, and found them fifty thousand pieces of silver.

  • Acts 19:19
    King James Version

    • 19 Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.

  • Acts Study Notes—Chapter 19
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)

    • 19:19

      magical arts: The Greek word for “magical arts” is pe·riʹer·ga, “curiosities.” One lexicon defines the word as “pert[aining] to undue or misdirected curiosity . . . as in the practice of magic.” (A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third Edition, 2000) It describes the arts of those who with the aid of evil spirits pry into forbidden things. Many people practiced magic and other forms of demonism in Ephesus. When Paul wrote his inspired letter to the Ephesians, he urged them to put on the complete suit of armor from God so that they could fight against wicked spirit forces.​—Eph 6:11, 12.

      50,000 pieces of silver: If the drachma or the denarius is meant by the term “pieces of silver,” a laborer would have had to spend 50,000 days, or about 137 years working seven days a week, to earn that amount of money.