Acts 19:18-28

18 And many that believed came , and confessed , and shewed their deeds.

19 Many of them also which 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.

20 So mightily * grew the word of God and prevailed .

21 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.

22 So he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto him, Timotheus and Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for a season.

23 And the same time there arose no small stir about that way.

24 For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen;

25 Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said , Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.

26 Moreover 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 be no gods, which are made with hands:

27 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 worshippeth .

28 And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out , saying , Great is Diana of the Ephesians.

Footnotes

• [a]. set at nought: or, brought into disrepute, or, contempt