And many that believed came, and confessed, and told of their deeds.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Confessing and declaring their deeds, as penitents do in the sacrament of penance, and not only in general declaring or confessing themselves sinners. See Matthew iii. 6. (Witham)
For since they had got to possess such power as, by means of the demons, to do such things, well might this be the consequence. And many of them that practised curious arts, brought their books together, and burnt them in the presence of all men;— having seen that there was no more use of them now that the demons themselves do these things— and reckoned up the price of them, and found the amount fifty thousand pieces of silver. So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.
