18. Many also of those who had believed came confessing and recounting their practices.
19. And many of those who practiced magic arts brought their books together in a heap, burning them before everyone. They totaled the value of the books and found it to be about fifty thousand pieces of silver.
20. So the word of the Lord was growing in power and prevailing.
21. Now after these things were accomplished, Paul resolved in the Ruach to go to Jerusalem after passing through Macedonia and Achaia, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”
22. So after sending two who were assisting him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.
23. Around that time, there arose no small uproar concerning the Way.
24. For a man named Demetrius—a silversmith, a maker of silver shrines of Artemis—was providing no small amount of business to the craftsmen.