Acts 19:17-30

¹⁷And this came to the ears of all those, Jews and Greeks, who were living at Ephesus; and fear came on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was made great.

¹⁸And a number of those who had faith came and made a public statement of their sins and all their acts.

¹⁹And a great number of those who were experts in strange arts took their books and put them on the fire in front of everyone: and when the books were valued they came to fifty thousand bits of silver.

²⁰So the word of the Lord was increased very greatly and was full of power.

²¹Now after these things were ended, Paul came to a decision that when he had gone through Macedonia and Achaia he would go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I have a desire to see Rome.

²²And having sent two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, into Macedonia, he himself went on living in Asia for a time.

²³And about that time a great outcry took place about the Way.

²⁴For there was a certain man named Demetrius, a silver-worker, who made silver boxes for the images of Diana, and gave no small profit to the workmen;

²⁵Whom he got together, with other workmen of the same trade, and said to them, Men, it is clear that from this business we get our wealth.

²⁶And you see, for it has come to your ears, that not only at Ephesus, but almost all through Asia, this Paul has been teaching numbers of people and turning them away, saying that those are not gods who are made by men's hands:

²⁷And there is danger, not only that our trade may be damaged in the opinion of men, but that the holy place of the great goddess Diana may be no longer honoured, and that she to whom all Asia and the world give worship, will be put down from her high position.

²⁸And hearing this, they were very angry, crying out and saying, Great is Diana of Ephesus.

²⁹And the town was full of noise and trouble, and they all came running into the theatre, having taken by force Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia who were journeying in company with Paul.

³⁰And when Paul was about to go in to the people, the disciples did not let him.