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Many also of them that had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds.
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And not a few of them that practised magical arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all; 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 the Lord and prevailed.
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Now 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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And having sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.
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And about that time there arose no small stir concerning the Way.
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For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Diana, brought no little business unto the craftsmen;
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whom he gathered together, with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this business we have our wealth.
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And ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they are no gods, that are made with hands:
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and not only is there danger that this our trade come into disrepute; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana be made of no account, and that she should even be deposed from her magnificence whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.
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And when they heard this they were filled with wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesus.