Worsley(i)
24 For one Demetrius, a silver-smith, who made silver models of Diana's temple, brought no small gain to the artificers: whom he got together,
25 and with them the workmen they employed about such things, and said, My friends, ye know that by this employment we get our wealth.
26 And ye see and hear, that not only at Ephesus, but in almost all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and perverted many people, saying, that they are no gods which are made by hands.
27 So that we are not only in danger of this, that the business we follow will come to nothing; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana will be despised; and her magnificence destroyed, whom all Asia and the whole world worshippeth.
28 Hearing this and being filled with rage, they cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
29 And the whole city was filled with confusion: and they rushed with one accord into the theatre, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus two Macedonians, fellow-travellers with Paul.
30 And when Paul would have gone in unto the people, the disciples would not let him.
31 And some also of the chief men of Asia, being his friends, sent to him and desired him not to venture himself into the theatre.
32 Some therefore cried one thing, and some another; for the assembly was confused, and the greater part did not know for what they were come together.
33 And they brought Alexander forward out of the multitude, the Jews urging him on. And Alexander beckoning with the hand, would have made a defence to the people.
34 But when they knew that he was a Jew, they all cried out with one voice, for near two hours, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.