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And there took place at that time no small disturbance about the way.
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For a certain [man] by name Demetrius, a silver-beater, making silver temples of Artemis, brought no small gain to the artisans;
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whom having brought together, and those who wrought in such things, he said, Men, ye know that our well-living arises from this work,
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and 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.
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Now 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.
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And having heard [this], and being filled with rage, they cried out, saying, Great [is] Artemis of the Ephesians.
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And 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.
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But Paul intending to go in to the people, the disciples suffered him not;
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and some of the Asiarchs also, who were his friends, sent to him and urged him not to throw himself into the theatre.