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.