31Even some of the officials of Asia, being his friends, sent word to him and urged him not to venture into the theater.
32The assembly was in confusion: some were shouting one thing and some another; most of them did not know why they had come together.
33Then the Jews pushed Alexander forward, out from the crowd. So Alexander motioned with his hand and would have made a defense to the people.
34But when they realized he was a Jew, they all shouted in unison for about two hours, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”