Anderson(i)
24 For a certain man, named Demetrius, a silversmith, by making silver shrines for Diana, furnished no little trade to the artists.
25 These he called together, with the workmen em ployed about such things, and said: Men, you know that our wealth arises from this trade:
26 and you see and hear, that not only at Ephesus, but throughout almost the whole of Asia, this Paul, by his persuasions, has drawn away a great multitude, saying, that they which are made with hands are not gods.
27 Now there is danger, not only that this our calling will come into disgrace, but that the temple of the great goddess Diana will be despised, and that the majesty of her whom all Asia and the world worships, will be destroyed.
28 When they heard this, they were full of anger, and cried out, saying: Great is Diana of the Ephesians!
29 And the whole city was filled with confusion. And they seized Gains and Aristarchus, who were Macedonians, Paul's fellow-travelers, and, with one consent, rushed into the theater.
30 And when Paul wished to go in among the people, the disciples did not permit him.
31 Some of the Asiarchs also, who were friendly to him, sent to him, and besought him not to trust himself into the theater.
32 Some, therefore, were crying one thing, and some another: for the assembly was confused, and the greater part knew not for what they had come together.