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And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.
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And many that believed came, confessing and declaring their deeds.
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In the same manner many who had practiced vain arts brought their books together and burned them before everyone, and they counted the price of them and found
it fifty thousand
pieces of silver.
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So the word of God grew mightily and prevailed.
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After these things were ended, Paul purposed by
the Spirit to go to Jerusalem, after he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, saying, After I have been there, it behooves me to see Rome also.
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So he sent into Macedonia two of those that ministered unto 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 the way.
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For a certain
man named Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen,
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whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation and said, Sirs, ye know that by this gain 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 has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are not gods which are made with hands
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so that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought, 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 worship.