Acts 19:36-41

³⁶Nobody can say that these things are not true. So you have to be quiet now. Don’t do anything that will make trouble for us.

³⁷Why did you bring these 2 men here? They didn’t do anything bad. They didn’t go into the special houses for our gods and take things from there. And they didn’t say anything bad about our woman god.

³⁸If Demetrius and his mates want to blame anyone about anything bad, they have to do it the right way. They have to go to the judges in the courts. If anybody wants to blame somebody else, those judges are ready to listen. That’s their job.

³⁹Or if anybody wants to complain about something else, there are other government bosses that can meet together and think about their problem.

⁴⁰You see, you mob now are not a proper meeting, and if the big Roman bosses hear about all this trouble, they might say that we Ephesus people are trying to start a fight against the Roman government. If they ask me about all this trouble, I will not know what to tell them.”

⁴¹Then the town clerk told the mob, “You can all go home now.” And they all went away from that sports oval.