Acts 19:20-25

²⁰So irresistibly did the Lord's message spread and prevail.

²¹Sometime after these events Paul resolved to go through Macedonia and Greece, and then make his way to Jerusalem. “And after I have been there,” he said, “I must visit Rome also.”

²²So he sent to Macedonia two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, while he himself stayed for some time longer in Roman Asia.

²³Just about that time a great disturbance arose about the Way.

²⁴A silversmith named Demetrius, who made silver models of the shrine of Artemis, and so gave a great deal of work to the artisans,

²⁵got these men together, as well as the workmen engaged in similar occupations, and said: “Men, you know that our prosperity depends on this work,