Acts 19:23-32

²³And there took place at that time no small disturbance about the way.

²⁴For a certain man by name Demetrius, a silver-beater, making silver temples of Artemis, brought no small gain to the artisans;

²⁵whom having brought together, and those who wrought in such things, he said, Men, ye know that our well-living arises from this work,

²⁶and ye see and hear that this Paul has persuaded and turned away a great crowd, not only of Ephesus, but almost of all Asia, saying that they are no gods which are made with hands.

²⁷Now not only there is danger for us that our business come into discredit, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis be counted for nothing, and that her greatness should be destroyed whom the whole of Asia and the world reveres.

²⁸And having heard this, and being filled with rage, they cried out, saying, Great is Artemis of the Ephesians.

²⁹And the whole city was filled with confusion, and they rushed with one accord to the theatre, having seized and carried off with them Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians, fellow-travellers of Paul.

³⁰But Paul intending to go in to the people, the disciples suffered him not;

³¹and some of the Asiarchs also, who were his friends, sent to him and urged him not to throw himself into the theatre.

³²Different persons therefore cried out some different thing; for the assembly was tumultuous, and the most did not know for what cause they had come together.