But also some of the Jewish exorcists, who went from place to place, attempted to name over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, "I adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches."We don't think of Jews having exorcists today; that's more of a Catholic thing. But apparently they did, and they called upon powerful figures to overpower the demons and drive them out. I don't know much about exorcism, so I'm not sure how this was supposed to work.
However, these Jews were calling upon Jesus. It doesn't appear they were believers, so why call upon Him? Apparently the miracles being performed in His name were powerful enough that some of the Jews seemed to re-evaluate whether He had truly been a heretic, but not so much that they believed He was God's Son.
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