Acts 19:23-28

CLV(i) 23 Now at that season no slight disturbance occurred concerning the way; 24 for a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, making silver temples of Artemis, afforded no slight income to the artificers, 25 whom convening together, as also the workers about such things, he said, "Men! You are versed in the fact that by this vocation we thrive, 26 and you are beholding and hearing that, not only of Ephesus, but of almost the entire province of Asia, this Paul by his persuading causes a considerable throng to stand aloof, saying that they are not gods which are coming into being by means of hands." 27 Now, not only is this endangering our party, by it coming to be confuted, but the sanctuary of the great goddess Artemis also is being thereby reckoned nothing. Besides, her magnificence is about to be pulled down also, whom the whole province of Asia and the inhabited earth is revering." 28 Now, hearing this and becoming full of fury, they cried, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"