Bible Person
Meaning: disposed; prepared · Male · 1 cross reference
Sceva is the Jewish chief priest named in Acts 19:14 whose sons attempt exorcism in Jesus' name without true authority. He belongs to the New Testament's warning about religious imitation without real submission to Christ. First appears in Acts 19:14.1
AI summary: Sceva matters because his single cross reference anchors one of Acts' sharpest exposures of spiritual presumption. The entry shows that the name of Jesus is not a technique to be borrowed but belongs to the authority of the risen Lord. Taken together, the material presents Sceva as a cautionary figure in the Ephesian exorcism episode.1
Central Figure
Sceva
Meaning: disposed; prepared
An implement, a Jew, chief of the priests at Ephesus (Acts 19:13-16); i.e., the head of one of the twenty-four courses of the house of Levi.
An implement, a Jew, chief of the priests at Ephesus (Acts 19:13-16); i.e., the head of one of the twenty-four courses of the house of Levi. He had seven sons, who “took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus,” in imitation of Paul. They tried their method of exorcism on a fierce demoniac, and failed. His answer to them was to this effect (19:15): “The Jesus whom you invoke is One whose authority I acknowledge; and the Paul whom you name I recognize to be a servant or messenger of God; but what sort of men are ye who have been empowered to act as you do by neither?” (Lindsay on the Acts of the Apostles.) 3
| Book | Cross-References |
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| Acts |
Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.