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And many that believed came, and confessed, and showed their deeds.
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Many also of them who used curious arts, brought their books together, and burned them before all [men]; and they counted the price of them, and found [it] fifty thousand [pieces] of silver.
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So mightily grew the word of God, and prevailed.
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After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia, and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome.
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So he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered to him, Timothy and Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for a season.
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And the same time there arose no small stir about that way.
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For a certain [man] named Demetrius, a silver-smith, who made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain to the artificers;
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Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth:
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Moreover, ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away many people, saying, that they are no gods which are made with hands.
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So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at naught; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia, and the world worshipeth.
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And when they heard [these sayings], they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great [is] Diana of the Ephesians.
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And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel, they rushed with one accord into the theater.
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And when Paul would have entered in to the people, the disciples suffered him not.
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And certain of the chief of Asia, who were his friends, sent to him, desiring [him] that he would not adventure himself into the theater.
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Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the assembly was confused, and the greater part knew not why they had come together.
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And they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hand, and would have made his defense to the people.
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But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice about the space of two hours cried out, Great [is] Diana of the Ephesians.
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And when the town-clerk had appeased the people, he said, [Ye] men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not that the city of the Ephesians is a worshiper of the great goddess Diana, and of the [image] which fell down from Jupiter?
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Seeing then that these things cannot be contradicted, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.