019:028 After listening to this harangue, they became furiously angry
and kept calling out, "Great is the Ephesian Diana!"
019:029 The riot and uproar spread through the whole city,
till at last with one accord they rushed into the Theatre,
dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, two Macedonians
who were fellow travellers with Paul.
019:030 Then Paul would have liked to go in and address the people,
but the disciples would not let him do so.
019:031 A few of the public officials, too, who were friendly to him,
sent repeated messages entreating him not to venture
into the Theatre.
019:032 The people, meanwhile, kept shouting, some one thing and
some another; for the assembly was all uproar and confusion,
and the greater part had no idea why they had come together.
019:033 Then some of the people crowded round Alexander, whom the Jews
had pushed forward; and Alexander, motioning with his hand
to get silence, was prepared to make a defence to the people.
019:034 No sooner, however, did they see that he was a Jew, than there arose
from them all one roar of shouting, lasting about two hours.
"Great is the Ephesian Diana," they said.
019:035 At length the Recorder quieted them down. "Men of Ephesus,"
he said, "who is there of all mankind that needs to be told
that the city of Ephesus is the guardian of the temple of
the great Diana and of the image which fell down from Zeus?
019:036 These facts, then, being unquestioned, it becomes you to maintain
your self-control and not act recklessly.
019:037 For you have brought these men here, who are neither robbers
of temples nor blasphemers of our goddess.
019:038 If, however, Demetrius and the mechanics who support his
contention have a grievance against any one, there are