19. And many of those who had practised magic brought their books together, burning them before all. And they reckoned up the value of them, and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver.
20. So the word of the Master was growing mightily and prevailing.
21. Now when these matters had been completed, Sha’ul purposed in the Spirit, when he had passed through Makedonia and Achaia, to go to Yerushalayim, saying, “After I have been there, I have to see Rome too.”
22. And having sent into Makedonia two of those assisting him, Timothy and Ärastos, he himself remained in Asia for a time.
23. And about that time there came to be a great commotion about the Way.
24. For a certain man named Demetrios, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, provided no little business to the craftsmen,
25. who, having called them together, with the workers of similar trade, said, “Men, you know that our wealth is from this business.
26. “And you see and hear that not only at Ephesos, but throughout almost all Asia, this Sha’ul has persuaded and turned away a large number, saying that they are not mighty ones which are made with hands.
27. “And not only is this trade of ours in danger of coming to rejection, but also that the temple of the great female mighty one Artemis whom all Asia and the world worship, shall be regarded as worthless and her greatness diminished.”
28. And having heard this, they were filled with rage and cried out, saying, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
29. And the entire city was filled with confusion, and they rushed with one mind into the theatre, having seized Gaios and Aristarchos, Makedonians, Sha’ul’s fellow travellers.
30. And Sha’ul, intending to go in among the mob, the taught ones did not allow him.
31. And some of the officials of Asia, being his friends, sent to him begging him not to risk himself into the theatre.
32. Then others indeed shouted this and others that, for the assembly was confused, and most of them did not know why they had come together.