Acts 19 Bible study: The name was magnified

At Ephesus Paul "found certain disciples" (19:1). He asks them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?", and they say, "No, we haven’t even heard that there is a Holy Spirit." (19:2). He asks, "Into what then were you baptized?", and they say, "Into John’s baptism." (19:3). "Paul said, “John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Christ Jesus.”" (19:4). "When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus." (19:5). "When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them and they spoke with other languages and prophesied." (19:6). "They were about twelve men in all." (19:7). Here is what almost everyone misses: Paul has spoken of John this way before. In the synagogue at Antioch of Pisidia he said that John "had first preached the baptism of repentance to Israel" (13:24), and that John said, "behold, one comes after me" (13:25). In the Greek, the baptism of repentance is the same two words in 13:24 and 19:4. At Ephesus Paul's words name the one who would come after John: "that is, in Christ Jesus" (19:4). The chapter says no more about these disciples than these verses, and these notes don't either.

μεγαλύνωmegalynosay meg-al-OO-no

Strong's: "from G3173; to make (or declare) great". G3173 is the word behind great in Demetrius's "the great goddess Artemis" (19:27) and the town clerk's "the great goddess Artemis" (19:35). Thayer lists 19:17 where he gives "to deem or declare great, i. e. to esteem highly, to extol, laud, celebrate". "Fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified." (19:17). Acts has the verb three times (counted in RP2018); the WEB gives it as honored in "the people honored them" (5:13). Favor's Luke 1 studies it in Mary's "My soul magnifies the Lord" (Luke 1:46).