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23 Just at that time a great commotion arose about the Way.
24 A silversmith named Demetrius was making large profits for his workmen by the manufacture of silver shrines of Artemis.
25 He got the workmen in that and similar trades together, and said to them, "Men, you know that this business is the source of our prosperity,
26 and you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but almost all over Asia, this man Paul has persuaded and drawn away numbers of people, telling them that gods made by human hands are not gods at all.
27 There is danger, therefore, not only that this business of ours will be discredited, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be neglected and the magnificence of her whom all Asia and the world worship will be a thing of the past!"
28 When they heard this, they became very angry, and cried, "Great Artemis of Ephesus!"
29 So the commotion spread all over the city, and by a common impulse the people rushed to the theater, dragging with them two Macedonians, Gaius and Aristarchus, Paul's traveling companions.