Acts 19:12 Meaning and Explanation
“So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.”
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Read Full Chapter →Even cloths that touched Paul's body are carried to the sick, and diseases and evil spirits depart.
What Does Acts 19:12 Mean?
The handkerchiefs and aprons are a workman's sweat-cloths and leather aprons, for Paul labored at his trade in Ephesus (Acts 20:34). Carried from his body to the sick, they become occasions of healing, as the hem of Jesus' garment had been (Luke 8:44) and Peter's passing shadow (Acts 5:15).
God stoops to human need with astonishing gentleness, meeting faith where it can reach, even at a bedside the apostle never visits. Yet the grammar of v. 11 still governs the scene: God wrought these things. The power was the Lord's, not the linen's, and every healing pointed past the cloth to the Christ who heals.
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What does Acts 19:12 mean?
Even cloths that touched Paul's body are carried to the sick, and diseases and evil spirits depart.