30. Paul was wishing to enter among the crowd, but the disciples would not let him.
31. Some of the chiefs of Asia, being his friends, sent to him and begged him not to surrender himself in the theater.
32. Now some cried out one thing, some another, for the assembly was in confusion. Most did not know why they had come together.
33. Some of the crowd solicited Alexander, whom the Jewish people put forward. Alexander motioned with his hand. He wished to offer a defense to the crowd.
34. But recognizing that he was Jewish, for about two hours they all with one voice cried out, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
35. After the town clerk quieted the crowd, he said, “Men of Ephesus, what man is there who doesn’t know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great Artemis and of her image fallen from heaven?
36. Since these things are undeniable, you must be calm and do nothing reckless.